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ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 



SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



DESKS, CHAIRS, GLOBES, BLACKBOARDS, ERASERS, 

TELLURIANS, BOOK CASES, PAPER, MOTTOES, 

PENS, CRA YONS, SLA TES, SLA TE PENCILS, 

MAC NETS, MEDALS, BOOK COVERS, 

BOOKS, REWARD CARDS, BELLS, 

CLOCKS, KINDERGARTEN, 

GYMNASTICS, INK, 

LEAD PENCILS, 

Etc., Etc. 




BAKER, PRATT & CO., 

143 and 144 Qrand Street, 
NEW YORK. 



Remarks. 



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We are prepared to fill orders for everything* ill the Book 
and Stationery line, as well as for all kinds of School 
Supplies. 

Great care ought to be taken in sending orders ; the full name and 
addf'ess should be specified, and the name of Town, County and State 
legibly written. 

Remittances may be made by draft or post-office money order drawn 
in our favor, payable in this city. Letters containing money should 
be registered to insure safe delivery. 

In the event of credit being desired, it will be necessary when send- 
ing an order — if the customer's name is not already on our books — 
to furnish us with references as to responsibility ; we shall in such 
instances, when the references are satisfactory, be pleased to allow 
thirty days' time on any goods that may be selected. 

We send all packages by express, unless the purchaser requests 
them to be sent by mail or otherwise. 

When goods are ordered to be sent by mail, sufficient money or 
stamps should be sent to prepay postage. 

Parcels, by mail, can now be registered at a cost of ten cents extra 
on each parcel, which precaution will insure their safe delivery. We 
will not be responsible -for the safe delivery of any goods sent by mail. 

Merchandise in parcels weighing four pounds or under can be 
transmitted through the mails at the rate of one cent per ounce. Books 
can be sent at the rate of one cent for two ounces, or fractional part 
thereof, but no writing of any kind is permitted by the post-office au- 
thorities to be enclosed. 

Duplicates of this Catalogue will be furnished for twenty-five cents 
each. Our complete Catalogue of School Books will be furnished for 
five cents each. 



Copyright by 

BAKER, PRATT & CO., 

1879. 



To the Educational PubKc. 



We take pleasure in presenting the most complete catalogue of 
School Material ever ofifered, having spared neither time nor ex- 
pense in its preparation. 

Many of the engravings are entirely new and original, covering 
numerous articles hitherto omitted in catalogues of like character. 

It is of the utmost importance that those charged with responsi- 
bility as instructors be supplied with every possible facility, such Jis 
apparatus to assist in illustrating and impressing their instruction. 

Equally important it is that everything which contributes to the 
cheerfulness and comfort of the school-room — where so much time and 
effort are expended in acquiring knowledge and mental discipline — 
should be of the very best quality and comprise the latest improvements 
to be obtained, thereby producing the largest and most valuable results, 
making study and instruction less of a task and more of a pleasure. 

It will be our aim and purpose to supply every possible want in 
connection with Educational requirements — from the Kindergarten to 
the University — by producing, perfecting, and adding to our stock of 
school furniture and apparatus the many improvements designed to 
render the training of the mental faculties more thorough, expeditious 
and agreeable, both to teacher and scholar, and as rapidly as their 
adaptation to the purpose will warrant. 

Our facilities are unequaled, and we are prepared at all times to 
offer the most favorable inducements not only to the trade buying in 
large quantities, but to the school or college needing a single article. 

All orders and correspondence will receive our prompt attention, 
and estimates will be carefully made, when desired. 

BAKER, PRATT & CO., 

IJ^^ Sf 144. Grand Street, 

p. O. Box 413S. 3VEW YOUIt. 



INDEX. 







PAGE 




PAGE 


Adjustable Book Covers, - 


- 121 


Books, Blank, 


110, 176 


Aids to School Discipline, 


125 


" Composition, - 


109, 176 


Albums, Kmdergartrn, - 


- 167 


" Copying, 


- 181 


Alphabet Blocks, 


118 


" Deaf and Dumb, 


167 


" Cards, 


- 120 


'' Dialogue, 


- 180 


" Cliarts, 


74 


" Drawing, 


149 


Andrews' Anatomical Charts 


78 


" Gymnastic, 


- 153 


" Drawing Slates, 


- 85 


" Kindergarten, - 


167 


" Noiseless '" 


- 83, 84 


" Microscopic, 


- 132 


Apparatus, Metric, 


- 168 


'• Miscellaneous, - 


177 


' ' Panoramic, 


119 


" Music, 


- 174 


Set, - 


- 183 


" School Library, 


178 


Arithmetical Solids, - 


115 


'• Sketch, 


- 151 






' ' Teacher's, 


182 


Backgammon Boards, 


- 123 


"' Writing, 


108, 176 


Badges, - - - 


127 


Botanical Chart, 


80 


Bags, School, 


- 122 


Bow Gun, - 


- 158 


Bands, Rubber, 


172 


Box Desks, with lids, - 


19 


BeUs, 


- 60 


Boxes, Lunch, 


- 89 


" Dumb, 


153 


Bristol Board, - 


147 


Blackboard Crayons, 


68, 70 


Brushes, 


- 72 




' Dividers, 


71 








Easel, 


- 70 


CaU Bells, 


61 




' Erasers, 


69 


Card Holder, 


- 129 




' Instruments, 


- 67 


Cards, Alphabet, 


120 




Pointers, 


68 


" Drawing, 


- 148 




' Slating, 


- 72 


' ' Reward, 


128 




' Stretcher, - 


67 


Celestial Sphere, 


- 59 


" Supports, . - 


- 65 


Certificates, 


176 


Blackboards, 


65 


Chairs, . . - 


- 41 


Blocks, Alphabet, 


118 


Charts, - - - 


73 


" Cube Root, 


- Ill 


" Alphabet, - 


- 74 


Blotting Paper, 


151 


•' - Anatomical, 


78 


Book Bags, 


- 122 


' ' Astronomical, 


- 77 


" Cases, Revolving, 


44 


" Botanical, 


80 


" " School, 


- 46 


" Color, - 


80 


" Clamps, - 


123 


' ' Drawing, 


80 


' Covers, 


- 121 


" Metric, 


- 82 


" Rest, 


129 


" Philosophical, - 


- ■ 76 


" Straps, 


- 122 


• ' Physiological, 


- 78 


Book- 


ieeping Blanks, 


111, 176 


" Reading, 


- 75, 81 





INDEX. 


5 




PAGE 


PAGE 


Charts, Solar System, 


- 74 


Drawing Stands, 


146 


' ' Willson & Calkins's, 


- 80, 81 


Dumb Bells, 


- 153 


" Writing, - 


74,80 


Dustless Crayons, 


68 


' ' Zoological, 


- 80 


" Erasers, 


- 69 


Chess Boards, - 


123 






Chest Expander, - 


- 156 


Easels, Blackboard, - 


70 


Chinese Ink, 


144 


Envelopes, - - . 


- 93 


Church Bells, 


- 60 


Erasers, Blackboard, - 


69 


Clamps, - 


133 


Lead Pencil, 


88, 145 


Clocks, . - . 


62-64 


Slate, - 


88 


Clubs, Indian, - 


153 


Eureka Liquid Slating, - 


- 72 


Compasses, - - - 


- 136 






Composition Books, 


109, 176 


Flange Fastening, 


11 


Conic Sections, - 


112 


Folders, Paper, 


- 112 


Coot Vent, - - - 


- 106 


Foot and Floor Fastening, 


14 


Copying Books, 


181 


Foot Rest and Brace, 


- 14 


Covers, Book, 


- 121 


Fountain Pens, - - - 


94, 171 


" Ink-WeU, 


106 


Frames, Numeral, 


- 112 


Crayons, ... 


68, 70 






Holder, 


-71, 141 


Geological Specimens, 


170 


Cube Root Blocks, - 


- Ill 


Geometrical Forms, 


- 114 






Globe Case, - - - 


55 






" Manual, 


48, 57 


Desk Lid Support, 


20 


Globes, Slated, - - - 


55 


" Slates, 


- 86 


" Tellurian, - 


- 56 


Desks, Normal, 


- 20, 27 


" Terrestrial, 


47 


" Teachers', - 


- 35 


Glue, - - 


- 97 


" Triumph, 


9 


Gumoline, - . . 


98 


" " Box, 


- 19 


Gymnastics, 


- 153 


Study, 


21 


Gyroscope, - . . 


59 


Diaries, School, 


- 110 






Dictionaries, 


182-184 


Hand Rings, 


- 153 


Diplomas, - - - 


- 126 


Health Lift, 


152 


Dissected Cone, 


112 






" Map, 


- 177 


Indian Clubs, 


- 153 


Dividers, - - - 


71, 138 


Ink, - - . . 


99 


Dovetail Method, - 


- 10 


" Indian, 


- 144 


Dowel, ... 


12 


Inkstands, 


102 


Drawing Boards, - 


- 150 


Ink Vent, 


- 106 


' ' Books, 


- 85, 149 


Ink Wells and Covers, 


105 


" Cards, 


- 148 






" Chai'ts, 


80 


Jeffers' Panoramic Apparatus, 


119 


" Instruments, 


134, 135 


Johnson's Alphabet Charts, - 


74 


'' Materials, 


134 


" Book Case, 


- 44 


" Models, - 


- 116 


Health Lift, 


152 


" Paper, 


147 


" Philosophical Charts 


76 


" ' Pens, 


- 138 


" Philosophy, 


77 


' ' Pencils, 


144 


" Solar System Chart, 


74 



6 




INDEX. 








PAGE 


PAGE 


Kindergarten Albums, 


- 


167 


Paper Folders, 


- 112 


Books, 




167 


" Manuscript, 


93. 


Gifts, - 


159 


-166 


" Writing, 


- 92* 


" Material, - 


- 


159 


' ' Weights, 


104 


Tables, 


- 


167 


Parallel Eulers, 


- 138 


Knives, Paper, 


- 


112 


Parlor Gymnasium, 
Paste, 


157 
- 98 


Liead Pencils, 


142 


-144 


Pencil Cases, 


- 89, 96 


'•' Pencil Sharpener, 


-88, 


145 


" Point Protectors, - ' 


- 145 


Library Numbers, - 


- 


131 


" Shari^eners, 


- 88, 145 


Liquid Glue, 


- 


97 


Pencils, Lead, 


142-144 


•■ Slating, 


- 


72 


Slate, - - • 


90 


Lunch Boxes, - 


" 


89 


Pen Cases, - - - 
Penholders, 


- 96 
96 


3Iagnets, - 
Magnifying Glasses, 


- 


134 
ICO 


Penmanship, 
Pens, Drawing, 


108, 176 
138 


Map Support, 


- 


70 


" Fountain, 


94, 171 


Maps, - - - 
" Dissected, 


-73, 


176 

177 


'•• Quill, 
'' RuUng, 


96 
- 138 


Mathematical Instruments, 


134, 


135 


" Steel, 


94 


Measures, Metric, - 


. 


168 






Tape, 
3Iedals, . _ _ 


- 


64 
127 


Philosophical Charts, 
Philosophy , 


- 76 


Merits, - - - 


125, 


128 


Physiological Charts, 


- 78 


Metals, . - - 




170 


Planispheres, 
Pocket Inkstands, - 


83 
- 104 


Metric Apparatus, 


- 


168 


Pointers, 


68 


" Charts, 


- 


82 


Prang's Compasses, 


- 136 


Microscopes, 


- 


132 


Protractors, 


140 


Minerals, - - - 


- 


170 






Mitchell's Outhne Maj)s, 


- 


79 


QuiU Pens, - 


- 96 


Models, Drawing, - 


- 


116 






Monroe's Eeading Charts, 


- 


75 


Reading Charts, 


- 75, 80 


Mottoes, - - - 


- 


126 


" Glasses, - 


- 130 


Mucilage, 


-99, 


101 


Recitation Seats, 


28 


Music Books, 


- 


174 


Records, School, - 


110, 177 


Numbers, Library, 




121 


Regents' Questions, 


175 


Numeral Frames, 


- 


112 


Registers, School, - 
Reward Cards, 


110, 177 
128 


Object Teaching Aids, 


. 


118 


Rings, 


- 153 


' ' ' • Forrr.-., 


_ 


113 


Rocks, 


170 


Orren,', ... 


. 


59 


Rubber, . - . 


- 145 


Outline Maps, - 


- 


79 


■ ' Bands, 
Rulers, 


172 
- 141 


Pads, Drawing, 


. 


151 


'^ Parallel, 


138 


Writing, 


- 


93 


Rules, Metric, 


- 168 


Panoramic Apparatus, 


- 


119 






Paper, Blotting, 


- 


151 


Scales, Drawing, 


- 139 


Drawing, 


- 


147 


'■ Metric, 


- 169 





INDEX. 


7 




PAGE 


PAGE 


Scales, Plotting, - 


- 140 


Spencerian Writing Charts, 


74 


Scholars' Companions, 


- 89, 91 


Steel Pens, - - - 


- 94 


School Apparatus, 


- 183 


Straps, Book, 


122 


" Bags, - 


122 


Stumps, - - - 


- 141 


" Bells, 


- 60 






" Bulletin Publications, 


174 


Tables, Kindergarten, 


- 167 


" Desks, 


- 9 


Tape Measures, 


64 






Teachers' Chairs, - 


- 41 


" Diaries, - 


110 


" Desks, 


35 


" Discipline, 


- 125 


Tellurian, - - - 


- 58 


' ' Mottoes, 


126 










" Globe, 


56 


" Music Books, 


- 174 


Testimonials, 


17, 26, 68 


" Officers' Desks, 


40 


" School, - 


126 


' ' Record s and Registers 


110, 177 


Thermometers, 


- 124 


Seat Hinge; 

Selections, - - - 

Settees, - - - 


14 

- 180 
28 


Transparent Slates, 
Triumph Desks, 

" Recitation Seat, 


- 88 

9 

- 28 


Senate Pads, 
Sermon Paper, - 
Sharpeners, 


- 93 
93 

88, 145 


' ' Writing Papers, 
Triangles, - - - 
T Squares, 


92 

- 140 

139 


Sketch Blocks, - 


151 




" Books, 


- 151 


"Universal Sharpener, - 


88 


Slate Drawing Book, - 


85 






" Pencils, 


- 90 


Van Everen's Book Covers, 


- 121 


" Pencil Holder, 


91 


Velvet Rubber, - 


145 


" " Sharpener, 


- 88 


Vent, Ink, - - - 


- 106 


Slated Cloth and Paper, 
'•■ Globes, 


66 
- 55 


Wands, - 


153 


Slates, 


88 


Webb's Cards, 


- 120 


" Blackboard, 


- 66 


Weights, Metric, 


169 


" Desk, - 


86 


" Paper, - 


- 104 


" Drawing, 


- 85 


Whitall's Planisphere, 


82 


" Transparent, 


88 


Willson & Calkins's Charts, 


- 80 


Slating, - . . 


- 72 


Willson's Object Lessons, 


81 


Solar System Chart, 
Solids, 


74 
113-115 


Writing Books, 

" Charts, 


108, 176 

- 74, 80 


Speakers, 

Spelling Blanks, - 
" Stick, - 


180 
109, 176 
- 118 


Fluid, 
Ink, - 
" Paper, 


- 100 

99 

- 92 


Spencerian Pens, - 


- 95 


Zoological Charts, 


80 




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AWARDED THE HIGHEST PREMIUM 




TJ. S. 

eiiiiial Eilipi 

OF 1876 




"STRENGTH, DURABILITY AND GOOD FORM." 

Also at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and tiie only Folding 

Seat Des/( that received Special Mention at either. 




The Patent "Triumph" School Desk, 

WITH FOLDING SEAT. 

Constructed on the Improved Method of Dovetailing Wood and Iron together, 
and inserting continuous Steel Dowels. 

Purchasers of School Furniture will find the Patent Dove- 
tailed "Triumpli" Desk the most perfect in its proportions, 
and much the strongest and most durable School Desk made. The 
seat and back are so curved as to enable the pupil to maintain an erect 



10 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

and healthful posture, and to perform his work with an ease and com- 
fort unknown in the use of chair desks, or even in most of the folding- 
seat desks. By our improved method of construction — the dovetail 
process and the use of steel wire rods inserted into the slats like con- 
tinuous dowels, (see cut of desk in process of setting up) —we obtain a 
degree of firmness, strength and durability that is not to be equaled or 
approached by any other method and which more than doubles the 
value of our desks over those put together in any other way. 

The "Triumph" Method of Dovetailing. 





Cut No. I. Cut No. 2. 

In the first cut N represents the dovetail portion of a section of 
the iron frame, and B, C, D, the section of a slat showing the form of 
the groove — both on a reduced scale. The second cut shows the two 
united. The slat thus secured can never come off nor grow loose, attd is 
independent of any third piece (a screw) in its union with the iron — a fact 
of vast importance and worthy of great consideration. By no other 
method can a perfect union of the parts be obtained. The agency of a 
third or uniting part (as screw, bolt, nut, wedge, etc.), is an element of 
weakness in itself, developing immediately on use and constantly increas- 
ing by continued strain, caused by the natural and proper motions of the 
pupil. 

The dovetail portion, N, of the iron frame forms a continuous 
" rib " or " backbone " to the entire casting, and being in shape on the 
principle of the " T " rail, thereby 7nore than doubles its stretigth. It 
also penetrates the wood in an unbroken and continuous line the entire 
width of the top, back and seat. This dovetail part of the iron, N, is 
one-half inch wide on its face and in length is from thirty to forty 
inches, according to the size of the desk. ~ The small screws used in 
the ordinary method, by other manufacturers, are driven into the wood 
at various points and irregular intervals, and depend entirely on their 
narrow thread. Their combined thickness, if placed side by side, would 
not exceed five to six inches, and, in contrast with the length of the dove- 
tail rib or tongue, shows at a glance the immense superiority and ad- 
vantao-e of the latter. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



1] 



The flanged portion of the iron frame, marked E, is wider than the 
face of most of the ordinary flat screw castings and forms a soUd bear- 
ing and brace for the wood, allowing no motion whatever of the dove- 
tailed rib, N, in its groove, C, in the wood. In the ordinary screw- 
fastened desks, the whole iron frame is greatly weakened by being bored 
full of holes for the screws. 

In order that this method of joining the wood and iron used in the 
construction of the " Triumph " Desk may be made perfectly clear, we 
have prepared the foUowing cut, representing full-sized sections of the 
wooden slat and the iron frame as they appear when united. 




The Combined Dovetail and Fiange Fastening. 

In the above illustration A represents a section of a slat, with a 
dovetail-shaped groove ; B, a section of the iron standard, or " casting,'' 
to which the slats are fastened; C, the dovetail portion of the casting, 
fitting into the groove of the slats; D, D, the flanges of the casting, 
against which the flat side of the slat is supported ; E, E, the points of 
the slat by which the dovetail of the casting holds it in place. 

The slats are grooved a httle deeper than the dovetails penetrate, 
and when driven on the castings, they press firmly on the flanges D, D, 
and the two opposite faces of the dovetail. The flanges of the casting 
furnish a solid bearing and brace for the slats, supporting and strength- 
ening the sharp points E, E, so that it is impossible for them to give 
way or become weakened. The combination of these flanges with the 



12 BAKEE, PEATT & CO., NEW YOEK. 

dovetail more than doubles the strength and firmness of the dovetail alone j 
and, as wood does not shrink endwise, the slats thus secured never get 

loose but grow tighter. 

Section of the Continuous Wire Dowel. 



The Continuous Wire Dowels. Two of these steel 
wire dowels are used in the construction of each desk; one extending 
through the centre, down the entire width of the back, and another 
across the entire width of the seat. They ti 

insure an even surface of the slats, and ef- 
fectually prevent them from warping, 
springing, or creaking. In order to pre- 
serve an even surface of the seat and back, 
these dowels are an absolute necessity in 




both single and double desks. This is es- THE CONTINUOUS DOWEL. 
pecially true of the latter, the slats of 

which, owing to their greater length, have a corresponding tendency to 
spring and warp. 

These dowels bind firmly together all the slats in the seat, and all 
in the back, and, in connection with the combined dovetail and flange 
fastening, give the desk the same stiffness and firmness that it would 
have if each of these sections were made oi one solid board. 

Superiority of tlie "TRIUMPH" Desk over 
Screwed Furniture. With Screwed Furniture — no matter how 
firm it may appear when new — the slats soon grow loose from the 
motions of the pupils, in using, leaving and returning to the desk, and 
from the inevitable shrinking of the wood and the gradual loosening of 
the screws. This necessitates frequent and expensive repairs. This 
weakness (which becomes decidedly manifest in one or two years, if not 
in a few months' time) grows worse and worse, until such desks become 
so shaky in every joint as to be unfit for further use. But the " Tri- 
umph " Desk will always remain perfectly firm ; for the shrinking of the 
wood, instead of injuring it, causes the slatv to grasp the dovetails of the 
iron frames more tightly and actually increases its firjnness. It is the 

only desk so constructed as to endure constant use, 
without repairs, and remain i^erfectly firm till the 
iron and the wood of Avhich it is made are actuaUy 
w^orn out. That this desk will do this w^e absolute- 
ly guarantee. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 13 




The ^^Triumpli" Desk 

IN PROCESS OF SETTING UP. 

The external appearance may be similar, as we 

know that other desks are offered for sale having much the same gene- 
ral appearance as the " Triumph," but they are all put together by- 
methods that lack the vital elements of enduring strength and firmness, 
which render the Dovetailed Triumph Desk well nigh indestructible by 
ordinary wear and tear. It is a fact past argument, that the dovetail 
method of uniting the iron and the wood is vastly superior to the best 
work which can be done in any other manner. 

The evidence that is coming in almost every day from School 
Committees and Teachers is abundant and conclusive, showing that 
desks not dovetailed require early and frequent repairs ; while the Tri- 
umph Desks, that have been in use for the same length of time, and in 
many instances two or three times as long, are invariably found to be 
as firm and in as good condition as iv hen first set tip. 

The early giving out of screwed desks has compelled the manufac- 
turers of that description of furniture to resort to various devices, such 
as imbedding the irons into slots ^ increasijig the width of the slats, gluing 
them together, etc, vainly endeavoring to remedy the serious defects to 
which we have referred. Other devices, calculated to divert atten- 
tion from the real difficulty, are substituting Wooden Legs and Ends^ct 
the iron frames of the desk, and attempting to inspire confide?ice in the 
doubly weak and short-lived experiment, by promisi7ig to warra?it it for five 
years, also cutting partial or half dovetails, and fiUing up the loose joint 



14 BAKEE, PEATT & CO., NEW YOEK. 

with nuts of iron, wooden wedges, etc., etc. All these experiments are 
virtual confessions of the inherent weakness of screwed furniture, which 
the pateiitees of the Triumph Desk detected long ago, a?id avoided by the 
only successful method yet devised. Each and every one of these experi- 
menters has confidently assured his customers for many years that 
" the screw is the only safe and sure thing." They find the facts to be 
against them, and now constantly ask you to buy and pay for their 
new and untested experiments. 

Tlie " Triuinpli " IS^oiseless Seat Hinges. These 
hinges are furnished with Andrews' Patent Steel Spring Washers, which 
eftectually hold the seats in any position, so that they cannot fall down 
by their own weight and make a noise. They have no rubber cushions 
to wear out, and no nuts to Avork loose, nor is any part liable to get out 
of order. Ever)'- teacher who knows from experience how soon the seat 
hinges in other desks become noisy will appreciate these advantages. 

Experiments made in May, 1875, testing by machinery the wearing 
capacity of our seat hinges, prove that after being subjected to a service 
equal to more Xhzxv fifty years of ordinary use in the school room, they 
remained absolutely /;r(f/n7;/z all rattle v.'hen raised and lowered in the 
usual manner. 




Adjustable Foot-Kest and Brace. 

The " Triumph " Foot-Rest and Brace. This foot- 
rest may be placed in either of three positions, and can be changed at 
any time in a moment, to accommodate pupils of different height. It 
is secured to the cross-bars of the iron standards by bolts entering iron 
nuts inserted in the sockets near the ends of the foot-rest, as shown in 
the cut. It thus becomes a very stiff" brace. 




Foot and Floor Fastenings. 

The " Triumph " Foot. In fastening the desks to the floor 
the screws are inserted obliquely, as shown in the cut, which gives them 
a much greater resisting power than if set perpendicularly. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 15 

The " Triumph " Desk has been used in thousands of school rooms, 
and proved to fully sustain all the claims made for it. It was first in- 
troduced to the public in 1870, It was improved and perfected in 1875. 
It received the only award for " strength, durability and good form," at 
the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, and the Paris Exposi- 
tion, in 1878, and was the only desk receiving special mention ! 

It is best liked where it has been longest used. 

We offer this furniture upon its merits and challenge the world to 
produce anything so nearly perfect ! 

Important Features of the "Triumph" Desk, 

1. It is unequaled for conve7iie7ice and comfort, enabling the pupil 
to perform his work with the least amount of fatigue, while it is stronger 
and will last longer than any other desk ever made ! 

2. The iron standards are not weakened by being bored full of 
screw holes, and are fifty per cent, heavier and stronger than their ap- 
pearance indicates, as the dovetail portions are concealed in the wood. 
It must be obvious to all, that the dovetail shape vastly increases their 
strength over flat castings. 

3. It has a noiseless seat-hinge, with no rubber cushions to wear 
out and cause it to rattle, and no wear on the bolt. 

4. It has an adjustable foot-rest that may be placed in any one of 
three positions, to accommodate pupils ofdifferentheight or length of limb. 
This is an inestimable benefit to the pupil, both in health and comfort, 
and effectually stops the noise caused by scraping feet upon the floor. 

5. All sizes but the smallest two are supplied with Andrews' Patent 
JVo?t- Corrosive Ink Wells — the very best ever invented. The ink-well is 
perfectly firm in its place, so that if a book strikes the glass under- 
neath, the ink is not slopped out, and, at the same time, the glass can 
be instantly removed for filling or for washing. The ink-well cover is set 
into the desk in such a way that its top is even with the top of the desk. 

6. This desk is \hQ. perfection of beauty and elegance, in symmetry 
of form and style of finish. Hard woods are used exclusively, present- 
ing the finest and most effective contrasts in color — Maple and 
Cherry in alternate slats are chiefly used. Ash or other woods furnish- 
ed if preferred. 

7. Two of the Triumph Desks can be set up as quickly as one 
of any desk put together with screws. 

8. We are obliged to put superior work into these desks. The cast- 
ings must be true, the wood must be carefully and accurately grooved 



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and fitted, and every part of the work must be done in the most perfect 
manner. No such accuracy is required in making screwed desks, and 
no such thoroughness of result can be obtained. 

The leading features of this desk are controlled by ten patents. 




The ' Triumpli" Set up in the School Room. 



DIMENSIONS OF THE " TRIUMPH " DESK. 



Single Desks for One Pnpil. 



No. 



1 , jSTormal 

2, High School 

3, Grammar 

4, First Intermediate . . 

5, Second Intermediate 

6, Primary 



Double Desks for Ttto Pupils. 



No. 



1 , Normal 

2, High School 

3, Grammar 

4, First Intermediate. - 

5, Second Intermediate 

6, Primary 



24 in. 
24 in. 
24 in. 
21 in. 
18 in. 
18 in. 



42 m. 
42 in. 
42 in. 
42 in. 
36 in. 
^6 in. 



16 
15 
14 
13 
12 

I03/ 



•S, D- 
M o 

St: 

.4- o 



1034^ in. 



m. 30 in. 
in. 28^ in. 
in. 26^ in. 
in. 24 3^^ in. 
in. 22^ in 
in. 20^ in. 



;o in. 

:8|4f in. 
26^ in. 

24H in. 
22^ in. 
20)4 in. 



■5 « 
.•2 m 




^'S 


1^ 


12}4 in. 


34X in- 


12^1 in. 


34 in. 


il'^in. 


32 m. 


1034; in. 


30 in. 


9H in- 


27 in. 


9 in. 


25 in. 


12)4 in. 


34X in. 


12)4 m. 


34 in- 


11^ in. 


32 m. 


1034; in. 


30 m. 


9H in. 


27 in. 


9 in. 


25 in. 



Age Accommo- 
dated. 



Adults. 

16 to 20 years. 

12 to 16 " 

10 to 13 " 

8 to II " 

5 to 9 " 

Rear seats. 



Adults. 

16 to 20 years. 

12 to 16 " 
:o to 13 '' 
8 to II " 
5 to 9 " 

Rear seats. 



Rear seats to each size, one-half the above widths. 

1^^ Please notice that our No. i is for Normal Schools and that 
our No. 2 is the largest seat required in Common Schools. 

Floor Space. No allowance made for aisles. Widths may be 
reduced one or more inches, if necessary, to economize in space. 



* Lowest point of curve. 



t Lowest side, next to the scholar. 



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Testimonials. 

We select the following from many similar at cur disposal. They 
embody the views of those who have tested the Triumph Desk 
in different localities, and who selected it in preference to various styles 
offered. 

Oshkosk, Wis. — Having used School Furniture of your manufacture during the 
last nine years, I feel warranted in considering it superior in. form and Jinish to any- 
other furniture used in schools under my supervision. In four different purchases, 
your furniture has been examined side by side with other leading manufacturers', and, 
after full examination, adjudged the best. G. S. Albee. 

Winona, Minn. — I have no hesitation in saying that your " Triumph " School- 
Desk is, in .all respects, the best device for its purpose with which I have any ac- 
quaintance. I believe this desk to be clearly entitled to the name you have given it. 
Being constructed on sound physiological principles, no intelligent educator can af- 
ford to disregard its high claims to general appi-eciation. 

William F. Phelps, Stale N'ormal School. 

Jefferson, Wis. — In 1870 we put about $700 worth of Triumph Desks in our 
High School building, and after eight years' use we find them perfectly satisfactory. 
The hinges seem to be in as good condition as when put in. There is not a noisy, 
shaky desk among them. Adam Kispert. 

Olmslead, Ky. — The Triumph Desks have given perfect satisfaction. I do not 
see how any improvement could be made in them, either in respect to comfort, dura- 
bility, or beauty. The Principals of several other schools have examined them, and 
were very enthusiastic over them. Jas. H. Fuqua. 

Williamsporl, Fa. — The 'Triumph' Dovetailed School-Desk commended itself 
to us on examining the claims made by you, and a close investigation led us to feel 
fully convinced, the result of which was the unanimous adoption of the desk by our 
committee of five, and the endorsetnent of the full board. The desks offered in com- 
petition were of the old screw style of fastening, with one exception, which we 
regarded as being still more inferior. Notwithstanding the price being above all the 
others, we feel we have secured the cheapest School-Desk we have ever purchased. 
K trial of nine months, including the winter term, when the rooms were continually 
heated, has demonstrated the correctness of your views. For firmness, strength, 
comfort, and beauty, we consider the desk imequaled, and fail to see how it is possi- 
ble to improve it. Very respectfully, 

{Signed) Wm. R. Willmot, Tames Smeeton, ? „ w n v^ 
Jas. F. Harris, James N. Kline, \Butldmg Committee. 

From Aaron Gove, Superitttendent of Fublic Schools, Denver, Col. — " On a 
trial of your 'Triumph ' Dovetailed Desks, recently, we found it nearly impossible to 
separate the wood froi7i the iron. These desks have been in use in Denver several 
years, and our dry atmosphere seems to have so shrunken the wood as to make it 
inseparable from the iron." 

James Ward, Supply Agent of Board of Education, Chicago, says: "You 
ask, ' Do the dovetailed seats shrink or in any way become loose ? ' They do 7iot. 
You also ask, ' Is this dovetailing perfectly satisfactory ? ' It is, so far ' as I know. 
I have heard no complaints from the teachers." 

From John S.White, Master Brooks School, Cleveland, O. — "By a long and 
careful examination of all the various school-desks in the market, I convinced myself 
that yours ^2A pre-eminently the best. One needs but compare the ' Triumph ' desk 
with the various others, to see how much superior it is in finish, in beauty, and 
gracefulness of design, in the selection of woods, awd firmness upon the floor. At 
my leisure I will write you a letter about the ' Triumph ' Dovetailed Desk, THE 
BEST SCHOOL DESK MADE IN THE WORLD, which you may use 
as you please." 



18 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Wyoming, Pa. — The seating which you did for us in the Wyoming Grammar 
School with your new "Triumph" Desk is proving itself to be all you claimed it, 
viz. : co7ivenient, strong, noiseless, symmetrical, economical, and of superior work- 
mattship. We were offered the sc7-ew desks at a less price, but took the "Triumph" 
solely on its merits, beheving it to be the 7nost eco7iomical m the end. Its use in 
the school gives entire satisfaction to all concerned. No part of the work has 
proved defective. Very truly yours, 

[Signed) RoBESON BoYD, Frest. 

E. R. Wolfe, Secy. 

Sunbury, Pa. — We have in use about 200 "Triumph" Dovetail Desks, which 
we selected from the styles' of four different manufacturers, after a most careftd 
comparison and examination, on account of comfort and the strength of dovetail- 
ing together, v\'hich ir, m.nch stronger than screws, to say nothing of other points of 
superiority. Having tised these desks during the term, we would further state that 
our expectations have been fully realized, giving entire satisfaction in every particu- 
lar to all concerned. 

{Signed) David R. Mellick, Prest., ) Upper Augusta 

Lemuel Shipman, Secy., ) School Board. 

Fiom S. G. Hubbard, Treasurer Smith Acade??iy, Hatfield, Mass.— "It gives 
me pleasure to say that the ' Triumph ' Desk, purchased for the Smith Academy in 
Hatfield, about three years since, has given perfect satisfaction to the Trustees and 
patrons of the school. The desk has proved itself to be as substantial and durable as 
it is beautiful in design." 

Prof. W. D Parker, Supt. Public Schools, Janesville, Wis., says: "The 
dovetaihng feature of your furniture is a great step in advance in the school-furniture 
business. In your desks, the joints are closer than when first set up, thus verifying 
all you claimed when the sale was made. We consider this incomparably superior 
to all screws." 

A. H. Ellsworth, City Superintendent of Schools, Green Bay, Wis., says: 
"You ask about the desks you furnished last fall. To be sure of my facts, I 
visited the school-rooms for a close examination, a day or two since. I did not find 
a desk that was in any way defective. I am satisfied the dovetailing is the strongest 
and neatest way of putting up school-desks that I am acquainted with." 

The undersigned, having purchased the Dovetailed Triumph Desks, and having 
used them in their schools from six months to three years, claim that the desks are 
all that they were represented, and that they give the best of satisfaction. The 
parties are all reliable; want of space prevents adding other names of several School 
Boards. 

H. A. Spofard, Com. Lebanon, Conn. 

jNI. K. Northam, Com. Stony Creek, Conn. 

Henry Z. Nichols, Com. Branford, Conn. 

Samuel S. St. John, Com. School District No, 14, Ridgefield, Conn. 

Geo. W. Cook, A.M., Prin. Cook's Collegiate Institute, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

S. H. Bishop, A.M., Prin. Select School for Boys, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

O WiNTHROP Starr, A.M., Prin. Mihtary Institute, Port Chester, N. Y. 

Miss R. E. JUDKINS, Prin. Philadelphia Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Henry A. Smith, Com. Pawtucket, R. I. 

John W. Marshall, Com. Rockport, Mass. 

Oscar Belden, Com. Hatfield, Mass. 

Robert J. Walker, Com. Royalston, Mass. 

George H. B. Green, Teacher, Belchertown, Mass. 

Horace Batcheler, Com. Sutton, Mass. 

A. S. Sheldon, Com. Dorset, Vt. 

George Swasey, Com. Newbury, Vt. 

Ephraim H. Stone, Com. St. Johnsbury Center, Vt. 

J. W. F. HOBBS, Com. Northampton, N. H. 

John W. Sanborn, Com. Wolfsboro Junction, N. H. 

John J. Sturgis, Com. New Gloucester, Me. 

T. C. Smart, Supervisor of Schools, Cherryfield, Me. 

Charles Northend, Supt. of Schools, New Britain, Conn. 

Yung Wing, Chinese Educational Commissioner, Hartford, Conn. 



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New Triumph" Box Desk. 

WITH FOLDING SEAT AND LIFTING TOP. 

Made both Single and Double. 

This Desk combines the advantages of a " Box " Desk with the 
important improvements of our "Triumph" Open Desk and Seat. 
The Hfting hd or top is made of sohd wood, without any panels or bor- 
der; on the under side two cleats of dovetailed iron, one-half inch wide, 
extend the width of the top, one at each end, which effectually prevent 
any springing, warping, or splitting. This is a great improvement 
over the glued framed tops of the past. 

The Double Desks have separated apartments with pencil trays 
and separate raising lids to each, so one pupil need not disturb another 
when opening his desk. 

The dimensions of the Box-Desks, height of seat, etc., are precisely 
the same as for corresponding Nos. of " Triumph " Open Desk and 
Seat. We do not make the smallest, or No. 6 size, in box style, as it 
would not be desirable. All but smallest sizes (Nos. 4 and 5) are sup- 
plied with the Patent Non-Corrosive Silvered Ink-Weils. The lids are 
suppHed with Andrews' Patent Desk Lid Support. 



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Normal or Collegiate Desk. 

BENT SPINDLE AND RIM CHAIR. 

This desk is specially designed for use in the higher schools and 
colleges. It is a model of beauty and convenience. The castings are 
unsurpassed for perfection in outline, carving, etc., and are provided 
with the adjustable foot rest. The chair, which has a bent oak rim, is 
very strong and is finished either light or in imitation of walnut. An 
ordinary movable chair can be used. Each desk is furnished with ink- 
well and lid support. 




Andrews' Patent Desk Lid Support. 

IN USE UPON ALL OUR LID DESKS, INCLUDING TEACHERS' DESKS. 

This Lid Support is a new invention, and secures a most desir- 
able result not hitherto accomplished. It is made of steel, and is 
self-springing, self-acting, and self-sustaining. The desk-lid cannot 
be dropped " down " or " over backwards," as the support holds it in 
any position^ and is at the same time the strongest " check " against 
throwing the lid back too far. The motion of the lid works it without 
the hand , 



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The "Triumph Study" Desk. 

ONLY 15 INCHES FROM THE EYE TO THE BOOK. 

Notice the statural, easy, and healthful position of the Scholar. 

The " Triuiiipli Study " Desk is constructed on the same 
method as the " Triumph " Desk and possesses all the advantages of 
the dovetail processs, so fully described in the preceding pages. It is 
well proportioned, handsome, very strong" and durable. Al 

though it has not been in use as long as the " Triumph " it has already 
obtained a degree of popularity that ensures its success, and places it in 
the front rank of school desks. The cuts partially represent the advan. 
tages of this desk, which is made, either single or double, in all sizes. 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Points of Superiority. 




The Triumph Study-Desk is 
better than all other folding- lid 
desks, for the following reasons : 

1. Each pupil can fold his own seat, and 
close his own book-box, without noise and 
confusion, or interfering with any other pupil. 

2. When the lid and seat are folded, the 
desk only occupies ten i7iches space. 

3. It can be transformed in an instant 
from a study-desk to a writing-desk^ and then 
to a perfect settee. 

4. On account of the dovetail mode of 
fastening, two "Triumph" desks can be 
"set up" in the same time required to "set 
up " one ordinary desk. 

5. Under the ink-well-piece is a pen and 
peticil-case groove, where these articles are 
kept safe. 

6. The book-box is larger than that of any 
other desk. The books are placed on end 
as in a library, not thrown upon a shelf, nor 
piled one upon another. 

7. The back and seat are slatted and curved so as to fit the form 
of the person, and great care has been taken to get true physiological 
curves 

8. The rough usage, such as chmbing on the desks, playing tag, 
etc., which would break the stationary top desks, wU not injure the 
study-desk in the least, when folded and locked. 

9. Whether open or folded, there are no sharp corners nor iron 
projections to catch and tear clothing. 

TO. A lock on every desk without extra cost. [Keys for Teachers 
and y^anitors only.) 

11. By a ne^v process of manufacture, the brittleness 
of the castings is taken out, making unquestionably the strongest in the 
market. 

12. The Triumph Study-Desk is the Only desk ever invented 
combining a Xoiseless Folding' Liid, which disturbs no other 
scholar; a Folding" Seat, which will remain noiseless y a Closed 
and Locking- Book-Box, a Book-rest, which presents the 



FOLDED. 

Book-box locked. Show- 
ing Desk and Seat oc- 
cupying only 10 inches 
in space. 



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23 



book to the eyeifi a direct line of vision, and a foot rest which stops 
the scraping of feet on the floor. 

13. This desk is \h& perfection of beauty and elegance, in symmetry 
of form and style of finish. Hard woods are used exclusively, present- 
ing the finest and most effective contrasts in color. Maple and Cherry, 
m alternate slats, are chiefly used. Ash or other woods furnished if 
preferred 

ly The contrasts are produced by the natural color of the wood, no stain- 
ing nor cheap veneer used. 

14. The scholars can rise in their places simultaneously, raising 
the lid as they do so, without losing time by folding the seat behind 
them. 




AS A WRITING DESK. 

Seat and Lid Open. Showing the Lid in Position for Writing or Taking 
Notes in the Lecture Room. 



The Book-Kest. 

15. T]\Q folding lid cdSi be turned over as seen in the cut on page 
21, presenting the under side as a rest or support for the books 

16. The scholar is not compelled to hold the book in the hand dur- 
ing the hours of study. A correct, easy and graceful posture is 7iatur- 
ally assumed by all who use the " book-rest.'' 

17. The book-easel %\x^^ox\.^ the book directly in front of the pupil, 
and at a proper distance and angle for reading. 

18. The book-easel is fifteen to eighteen inches from the eye of 
the scholar, distance varying according to the size of desk used. 



24 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

19. The book will stand on the book-rest, without trouble to the 
scholar. Observe, in the cut on page 21, that the boy's hand does not 
touch the book, but is at one side, lying on the book-easel 




AS A SETTEE. 

Lid Folded and Book-box Locked. For Assembly Rooms, Colleges, Chapels, 

Halls, etc. 

The Folding Lid. 

20. It is held in positio7i by gTa\T.tatloil. 

21. It is noiseless in opening and closing. 

22. It is simple in construction, has no machinery, bolts, springs 
nor bars to make a noise, or get out of repair. 

23. When the lid is folded down over the book-box, it is locked, 
thus perfectly protecting the books, papers, pencils, etc., from dust, 
damage, or intrusion. This is a very important matter, as the drawing 
and school books of young ladies and younger female scholars have 
sometimes been insultingly dealt with- by " fellows of the baser sort," 
who happened to occupy their seats at evening meetings, lectures, 
concerts, etc. 

24. The Triumph Study-Desk is the only folding-desk in wnich 
the hd, when being raised or lowered, -will not strike the knees ; 
nor can it be thrown over upon the head of the pupil occupying the 
seat in front. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 25 

25. The lid locks itself in the different positions seen in 
the cuts. The lock is in, and a part of, the hinge-joint, and is automatic 
in its woi'king. " It is a marvel of mechanical ingenuity ! " 

26. The Ud is entirely under the control of the pupil using it, and 
cannot hQ pushed nor thrown out of position. 

27. The smallest child can with ease raise or lower the lid, by 
taking hold of the front edge and lifting it a very little. Notice that 
there are no spiral springs nor wire levers underneath the lid to pull at, 
nor a7iy iiiachiliery whatever about the desk. 

28. The lid is adjusted to the different positions, by the use of the 
only successful means ever devised — our patent improved Au- 
tomatic Slot-Hins-e. 



The Seat-Hinge. 



29. It is conceded the strongest ever manufactured. It has three 
bearings or stops ; one in front of the fulcrum, one back, and the solid 
iron truniofi and socket — see cut. 

30. It is made noiseless, not by using pads of either India rub- 
ber or leather, wooden hinges, nut and bolt friction hinges, nor by any 
other of the various devices which perish in a day These pads are 
soon decomposed by contact with the iron, and mash down^ crumble 
to pieces and fall out ; the wooden hinges chip off and split, and the nut 
and bolt friction hitiges griiid loose, while the nuts work loose and some- 
times entirely off, from the constant movement of the seat. The Tri- 
umph seat has the only effectual means of preventing both looseness 
and noise — the Patent Indestructible Steel Spring: 
Washer. 

31. The seat will support itself at any angle, and not come down 
with a bang whenever let fall; warranted to remain noise- 
less forever ! No other manufacturer can furnish a really 
noiseless and durable hinge. 

32. The seat will support a ton, and no danger of breaking. 

2)Z' It is as easy to sit upon as an upholstered "rocking-chair," 
and far more healthful. 

It is essential that the foregoing articles receive the most care- 
ful consideration from those about to purchase school desks, in order 
that the many decided advantages of the Triumph Study 
Desk shall be fully known and appreciated. The more thorough the 
investigation the stronger will be the conviction that this is, in all re- 
spects, the ;best folding-lid desk ever offered to the 
public. 



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BAKEE, PRATT Sz, CO., NEW YORK. 



Dimensions of the "Triumpli" Stody Desk. 



No. 



Single Desks for One Pnpil. 

1, Normal 

2, High School 

3, Grammar School 

4, Intermediate 

5, First Primary 

6, Second Primary 



Length. 



24 m. 
24 m. 
24 in. 
21 in. 

18 in. 
iSin. 



Height of 


Extreme 


Seat. 


Width. 


16 in. 


33 ii'^- 


15 in. 


33 m. 


14 m. 


29 in. 


13 in. 


29 m. 


12 in. 


27 m. 


10^ in. 


24 m. 



Age 
Accommodated. 



Adults. 

16 to 20 years. 

13 to 16 " 

10 to 13 " 
7 to 10 " 
5 to 7 " 

Rear Seats. 



Double Desks for Two Pupils. 



Xo. I , Normal 

" 2, High School 

" 3, Grammar School. 

' ' 4, Intermediate 

" 5, First Primary 

" 6, Second Primary'.. 



42 in. 


16 


42 m. 


15 


42 m. 


14 


42 m. 


13 


36 m. 


12 


36 in. 


10 



33 m- 
33 in. 
29 in. 
29 in. 
27 m. 
24 in. 



Adults. 

16 to 20 years. 

13 to 16 " 

loto 13 " 
7 to 10 " 
5 to 7 " 

Rear Seats. 



In placing desks, let the edge of the seat project under 
the lid of the desk before it about one inch, and so on until all are 
placed ; also, place only desks of the same size in each row, from 

front to rear of room. 

Testimonials. 

From Rev. A. C. Roe, Coniwall-on-Hudsoii, N. Y. " The desks 
I am much pleased with, and like them better from day to day." 

From John J. Hull, Clintondale^ N. V. " We like the seats first- 
rate, and our School Commissioner pronounces them 'A No. 1.'" 

From Geo. B. Winslow, School Trustee, Gouvefiieur, N. Y. " The 
Triumph Study Desks purchased of you have been in use a few 
weeks in our Primary Department and are m every way satisfactory. The 
teachers and pupils are dehghted with them. These desks were select- 
ed after comparison with other first-class desks, by reason of their 
superiority, both as to form and strength as well as to beauty of finish. 
The position in which the pupil is enabled to hold his book while study- 
ing I regard as a very great improvement ; besides, the folding lid 
admits of the desks being placed nearer together, thus tending to en- 
courage an upright posture, also allowing a greater number of desks to 
be put in a given space. Had I the necessary authority I should order 
a hundred more for use in our school." 

From Geo. P. Felter, School Trustee^ Nyack, N. Y. ''■ Our new 
desks more than answer all requirements — they are splendid." 

From I. N. Leigh, Principal Classical School, Flemiiigton, N. J^. 
" Many of our patrons and others have visited the school to see the 
new furniture. All pronounce it beautiful, which indeed it is." 

From R. M. Lusher, State Supt. of Pub. Instruction, New Or- 
leans, La. " The desk is indeed a triumph of mechanical skill, and a 
model of beauty and convenience, and I doubt not that it will soon find 
its Avay into the schools of our country." 



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NoriDil Lid Desk and Revolving Pedestal Chair. 

This is the most complete Desk ever offered for 
Higher Classes in Academies, Colleges, etc. It embraces elegance, 
comfort^ and extreme durability. The design is novel and 
striking, both of Desk and Chair, which are permanently attached to 
the floor. The Chair will turn to right or left only, to allow egress or 
ingress from either side; or make a complete revolution, if desired. 
The lid of the Desk is made to lift, and supported with our Patent Lid 
Support. The ornamental wooden guard on the front of the Desk is 
supported by metallic posts at each end and in the centre, neat and 
tasteful in design, which are sunken into the woodwork of the box, 
affording extra strength at this point. 

The castings have a pleasing effect finished in maroon japan, with 
prominent lines relieved by bronzing. 

The Desk can be made to accommodate two pupils, and in cherry, 
walnut, or other woods, if desired. Size, Single Desk, 24 x i8 inches. 
Any desired size made to order. 



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se:tteie:s 




''Triumph" Eecitation Seat. 

No. 156. Curved Back and Curved Folding Slat Seat. 

Tills Settee is made in six sizes corresponding with 
those of the "Triumph" Desk, and of the same handsome design. 

Standard length 8 feet, but any length desired can be furnished at 
short notice. 

The end castings are dovetailed into the wood, which is of alter- 
nating colors to match the " Triumph " furniture. The dowels and 
bolted foot-rests are used, and, altogether, the "Triumph" is the 
most substantial, comfortable and beautiful Recitation Seat 
yet designed, and one that can be " set up " with greater ease and rapid- 
ity than any other seat of the same length. 




Tlie Standard Primary Recitation Settee. 

No. 157. With Arm Rest and Book Box. 

Tllis new article has been made for primary pupils, where it 
is desirable to give more freedom of movement than is afforded by the 
combined desk and seat, and also to accommodate a greater number in 
the same space. A substantial arm rest is provided on which the slate 
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requirements. The shape is comfortable in the extreme. It can be 
used on carpeted floors without screwing. 

This seat is made without arms for Sabbath-school use. Standard 
lengths, 8 feet. 




The Improved Gothic Settee. 

No. 150. For Railroads, Hotels, Court Rooms, Porches, 
Lawns, etc. 

These Settees we believe to be the best in all respects for the 
above purposes ever made. 

An entirely new set of patterns, having an Improved Method of Bolt- 
ing, instead of screwing slats to the castings, makes our Nos. 150 and 
151 very much stronger than screws could possibly make them, while 
they may be put together in. less than one-half the ii7iie required for seats 
of other manufacturers, nearly all the work being done before the seats 
leave the factory. These seats are made with alternating colors of hard 
wood, and finished, when designed for the lawn or porch, in coach or 
weather varnish. Size, 23 inches by any desired length. 

No. 151, same size with dividing arms to prevent reclining. 




Lawn Seat. 
No. 152, same size, without ends or dividing arms, suitable for the 
lawn, piazza, croquet ground, etc. An ample and luxurious seat. 



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Scroll Pattern Settee. 

Floor space — 8 feet x 28 
inches. Any length made to 
order. 

No. 160. Whitevvood. 

No. 161. Same. Hinged 
leaf attached, forming a nar- 
row desk for students who 
take notes. 

No. 16 1. 

Rustic Folding Seat, Station- 
ary Back. 

No. 163. Curved seat. Pan- 
eled back. Walnut. Ash panel. 
Alternate ash and walnut slats in 
seat. Usually made with panel 
extending through to ends, in- 
stead of as in cut. So made un- 
less otherwise ordered. 

No. 164. Same. Plain solid 
back. All ash. 

Floor space, 8 feet x 28 inches. 

Rustic Stationary Seat. (Re- 
versible Back.) 

No. 165. Curved seat. Pan- 
eled back. Walnut. Ash panel. 
Alternate ash and walnut slats in 
seat. Usually made with panel 
extending through to ends, instead 
of as in cut. So made unless 
otherwise ordered. 

No. 166. Same. Plain back. 
No. 165. Ash. 

Tliis seat is similar in style to Nos. 163 and 164, and is designed 
to accompany them. In lecture rooms, church and Sabbath-school 
rooms, this seat, alternating with the above, presents a neat and uni- 
form appearance, and facihtates the immediate facing of classes by 
means of the reversing back, which swings as indicated by dotted lines. 
Nos. 163 and 165 are usually made with solid panel backs, but may 
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Removable Hall and Assembly Seat. 

No. 167. Ooen and solid panel back. Ash. Walnut panels and 
scroll. 

No. 168. Same. All Ash. No panel. 

Curved folding seat, with alternate ash and walnut slats. 

Orders should state when open panel is desired. Solid panel 
will be sent unless otherwise ordered. 

Floor space, 8 feet x 28 inches. 

Slat Back Removable Assembly Seat. 
For public halls or lecture rooms, which 
are cleared for festivals, fairs, etc. Two 
seats can be packed into the space of one. 
The castings are of extra strength ; and 
the seats stand firmly, without fastening to 
the floor. 

No. 180. Curved back and curved fold- 
ing seat. Alternate ash and walnut slats. 
No. 181. Same. All ash. 
Standard sizes, Nos. 167 to 181 inclu- 
sive, 20 inches x 8 feet. 

Tliese seats we recommend for 
their strength and comfortable sitting qiiali- 
ties. They are especially suitable for lecture rooms and halls which are 
sometimes cleared for festivals, fairs, etc., as they fold into a space only 
six inches wide, and when provided with foot pieces (placed at right an- 
gles with seat), may be piled one on the other in any oxdcmsxy hall entrance 
leaving abundance of passage room, a result not to be accomplished with 
chairs. The castings, which are rustic and gothic in design, are very 
strong and rigid, and are united to the wood by our new method of bolt- 
ing instead of screws, which more than doubles the facility of setting up. 
They are properly stiffened by dowels and braced below by the foot rest, 
not needing attachment to the floor, especially if provided with foot pieces. 




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Folding-Leaf Desk Attach- 
ment. 

No. 175. This cut shows the 
Folding-Leaf Desk Attachment, 
which has a book-box that is closed, 
when desired, by the falling leaf. 
This is a very convenient lecture 
room desk, and may be attached 
to our Nos. 156, 163, 164, 167, 
168, 180 and i8r. 
Specially desirable for use in Theological Seminaries, or other in- 
stitutions where students desire to take notes. 







The "Mission" Primary Settee. 

No. 176. Stationary Seat and Back. 

This Settee is the cheapest made, and is an admirable 
one for primary classes wherever an inexpensive article is required. 

The iron standards are of good quality, and the back and seat of 
ash. 

No. I. Seat 14 inches high. 

" 2. " 12 " " 



Width of seat, 9 to 12 inches. No. i has two back rails. Nos. 2 
and 3 have but one back rail each. Standard length, 9 feet. Can be 
furnished any length required. 

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Reversible Settee. 

This entirely new 

Sabbath-school settee will be 
found to meet the wants of 
those desiring a seat which is 
at once a substantial and 
handsome settee for the 
assembly room, and capable 
of being quickly, easily and 
noiselessly reversed, to 
accommodate Sabbath-school 
classes. 




No. 183. Arranged for sweeping, No. 183. Arranged for packing 
or for entering the pew. away to clear the room. 

This seat possesses the following decided advantages • 

1. It is strong and durable. 

2. It is handsome and comfortable. 

3. It stands on strips, and need not be fastened to the floor, thus 
saving the carpet. 

4. It is reversed easily and noiselessly. 

5. If it is desired to clear the room, it packs into less space than 
any other settee. 

6. It is light and easily handled. 

7. It is cheap. 

Whenever a portable, reversible settee is required, we re- 
commend the above as possessing many desirable qualities not to be 
overlooked. 



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The " Keystone " Improved Reversible Settee. 

No. 184. With Curved Seat and Back. 

This settee successfully meets all objections heretofore made to a 
Reversible Back Settee. The combination of the seat and back in an 
unbroken and continuous line, A^-ith a curvature adapted to the human 
form, capable of complete reversal without the use of complicated 
mechanism has been gained in this settee, rendering it at once tasteful, 
economical, healthful and practical. 

A centre support is attached to the floor at equal distances from 
each end of the settee, on ^vhich the body of the settee rests, only when 
in use. A foot rest extends the length of the settee, which, with the 
iron braces, gives perfect rigidity to the floor supports and prevents all 
lateral motion. 

The original and handsome designs of the castings, -with the 
graceful, cixn-ed outlines, unite in making the church or hail furnished 
with them attractive in the extreme, and unequaled by anytliing hitherto 
presented to the public. 

We finish in any wood desired, and. notwithstanding its many supe- 
rior points, we are enabled to ofier it at a moderate price. It can 
be readily transported in parts, at low freights, and set up at a distance 
by an ordinarj- mechanic. The iron ends are handsomely finished in 
plain black or brown japan, or bronzed if desired. Standard length, 8 
feet. ]\Iade anv len2;th desired. 



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TEACHERS' DESKS. 

Ovir roetliocl of attaching the legs to our Desks and Tables, so 
that they may readily be removed for transportation, is one in which the 
strength of the table or desk is in no respect impaired, while its advan- 
tages are apparent to every purchaser, when the difference between 
transportation rates of furniture set up and in knock doivn is considered. 

The woods used in the construction of our Teachers' Desks and 
Tables are Cherry, Ash, Maple, Black and Satin Walnut, and are 
selected to give the most pleasing contrast in colors, and to harmonize 
with the School Desks they accompany. 




No. 300. 2 feet 6 inches long. Solid flat top, one drawer, with lock. 




No. 301. Two drawers, with 
plain top. Length, 4 feet. 

^No. 302. Drawers, 5 inches 
deep, enameled cloth top. 
Length, 56 inches. 




No. 303. Enameled cloth 
top, 46 X 24 inches. 

No. 303^, Plain top. 56 
X 28 inches. 



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No. 304. 2 feet 6 inches long. Lid to raise, with lock and key. 
This is a strong and neat desk, very well adapted for use in small 
class-rooms. 

No. 304^. Same style, but larger ; being 3 feet 6 inches long. 
No. 305. Same size as No. 304, made with walnut panels. 




No. 308. 48 X 26 inches. Two drawers. Lid to raise; support- 
ed oa iron standards, corresponding with the iron-end furniture. Cherry 
or Ash. 

This desk is very convenient and strong. It has all the necessary- 
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No. 310. 52x26 inches. Walnut. Plain legs, inclined top, two 
drawers. 

No. 3-11. Same size and pattern, except that it is made of cherry, 
and has fluted legs, as shown in the cut. 

No. 313. Same as No. 311, made of walnut. 

This is one of our most popular styles. The fluted legs and gene- 
ral superiority of finish of our desks give it an attractive appearance. 




This is called the Council or Alderman's Desk, and where one of 
this size would answer it will be found most convenient. The wooden 
standards are elaborate, and well braced. 

No. 95. 28 X 22 inches, with solid top. 

No. 96. Same size. Enameled cloth top, lock and key. 




No. 314. 44 X 28 inches. One 
drawer, pigeon holes and tray, with 
lid to raise. 

No. 315. Same, but drawer and 
^p book compartments in place of open 
pigeon holes. 



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No. 319. 44 X 28 inches. Four drawers, flat enameled cloth top, 
fluted legs, finished back. 

This and the succeeding styles, it will be observed, are arranged 
in the most compact form, with abundance of drawer space. 




No. 320. 44 X 28 inches. Inclined enameled cloth top, solid or 
open railing, five drawers, with pulls and book cupboard, plam or 
paneled back. 




No. 325. 44 X 30 inches. Like No. 320, but having case of 
pigeon holes attached to top, with rail above. Enameled cloth, five 
drawers, finished back, fluted legs. 

No. 326. Same, with finished back and closet. 



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No. 340. 54 X 34 inches. Eight drawers, table top, plain back. 
Cherry. A new style, elegant and convenient. 

No. 341. 54 X 34 inches. Same, with paneled back. 




No. 346. 54 X 30 inches. Inclined enameled cloth top with rail- 
ing, six drawers with bronzed pulls (cupboard in front and private cup- 
board in end). Walnut. 

No. 347. 54 X 30 inches. Having paneled back and carved 
pulls, enameled cloth top and binding. 




No. 348. 54 X 34 inches. Like No. 346, but having open or 
pigeon-hole cupboard at left or right, and partitioned book closet in 
center. Walnut. 

No. 349. 54 X 30 inches. Having paneled back and carved wal- 
nut pulls, enameled cloth top and binding. 



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The new style gothic desk, represented in the following cut, 
is an article of furniture that would embellish any school room, office 
or study. It is finished in the most careful manner, and is complete in 
every respect. 




No. 352. 54 X 30 inches. New style Gothic desk, arranged simi- 
lar to No. 346, finished ends and back, flat top, covered with billiard 
cloth. 

This beautiful desk, like the one described below, is in 
every way well adapted for use in the trustees' room, or in the office of 
a board of education, as well as on the principal's platform. The 
beautiful designs of these desks and the fine workmanship displayed in 
their manufacture make them very tasteful and elegant. 




No. 390. 56 X 33 inches. Flat top, billiard cloth, five drawers, 
closet for books and pigeon holes, elaborate, heavily carved pilasters, 
French walnut panels, and very superior finish. 

No. 392. 56 X 31 inches. Inclined top, billiard cloth, five draw- 
ers and closets, narrow level. 

No. 394. 56 X 34 inches. Inclined top, biUiard cloth, five draw- 
ers and closet, wide level for boxes or cases. 



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CHAIRS. 




No. I. ASTOR. 

Cane Seat. 

Maple, - $i.oo. 




No. 3. Exhibition. 
Wood Seat. 

Ash, with iron rods, $1.40. 




No. 2, Recitation. 
Cane Seat. 

Maple, $1.00. Walnut, $1.75. 




No. 4. Palisade, 

Wood Seat. 

Ash, - $1,00. 



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No. 5. Junior. No. 6. Cottage. 

Caue Seat. Cane Seat. 

Oak, $1.75. Walnut, $2.25. Maple, $1.25. Walnut or Oak, $2.00. 




No. 7 Favorite Revolving No. 8. Prescott, 

With Springs. Cane Seat and Back. Cane Seat. 

Oak, $6.00. Walnut, $6.50. Oak, $4.00. Walnut, $4.25. 



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No. 9. Favorite. No. 10. Library. 

Cane Seat and Back. Cane Seat. 

Oak, $3.75. Walnut, $4.00. Oak, $4.75. Walnut, $5.00. 




No. II. Senior. No. 12. Office. 

Cane Seat, Tfith Iron Bods. Ash Seat, with Iron Kods. 

Oak, $2.50. Walnut, $2.75. $2.25. 



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The Johnsoii Kevolyiiig Book Case. 

With Independent Adjustable Shelves. 
(PATENT APPLIED FOR.) 




NO. I . JllMIIIillliii rpi^ig Book Case, though designed 

for every person who owns and reads 
books, is especially useful to Lawyers, 
Physicians, Clergymen, and all who have 
occasion to handle reference books. 
It occupies less space than any other book case. In fact, it is 
the most compact book case in the world, as it contains more hooks for its 
size than any other device. It is minimum in size, tnaximum in capac- 
ity, and the cheapest book-case made. 

Being made entirely of iron, it can never shrink, warp, crack, nor 
get out of order, yet it is not heavy, and it is capacious and strong. 



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It is highly finished, and suitable for any room, office, library, or 
parlor. Each shelf is independent of all the rest, and easily adjusted to 
adapt the several apartments to books of any height. 

It is constructed in such a manner that // can never wear out. 




No. 3. 

Sizes and Prices. 

1 6 inches square for books not larger than 71^ x \oy^ inches. 

No. 1 With I apartment, boxed for shipping, - - - $10.00 

a 2 " 2 " " " " ■ " 12.00 

U Q "2 " " " - " ■ I5"°° 

a ^ u ^ u u " - . - 18.00 



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Book Cases for School Libraries. 




No. T/2. 52 X 181^ inches, 8 feet high. Plain. 
No. 81^. Same. Paneled corners. 





No. 440. 11 j4 X 30 inches 
wide inside, 3^ feet high, having 
shelves for books and apparatus. 
Will take in the 8 inch globe, etc. 
Any size made to order. 



No. 241. 171^ X 31 1^ inches 
inside, 6^ feet high. Plain case 
for maps, apparatus, globes and 
books.' 

No. 242. 17^ X 34 inches in- 
side, 6j4 feet high, with drawers 
in base. Divisions in both. 



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HfEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBES. 

A Good Globe, like the dictionary, should always be close at 
hand for reference. 

The Teacher needs one, and cannot. get along without it! 

Object-Teaching is now considered an indispensable method ! 

Pictures are better than pages for educating the young. But the 
Globe is more than a picture; it is a tangible object that may be 
handled, a fac- simile of the earth on which we live. No map 
can take the place of a Globe, 
which shows the relative posi- 
tions of countries and places in 
respect to their latitude and 
longitude. The Globe also 
shows how degrees of longitude 
grow shorter as we approach 
the poles, while the degrees of 
latitude remain the same. 

No article of furniture gives 
such a refining effect to the 
home or school as a good globe. 
O VI r Globes are the 
handsomest and strong- 
est that are made. They are 
thoroughly revised to 

date. They cannot be broken, 
or even cracked, being hollow, of 
several layers of papier mache, 
and thoroughly braced. 

The polished Brass Me- 
ridians are marked distinctly 
to show the degrees of latitude, 
while the longitude is marked 
on the Equator. 

The flexible Quadrant, of 
brass, also has degrees marked upon it for measuring distances on the 
meridians. 

On the Horizon are the degrees of latitude, the names of the 
months, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, by which one may find the 
position of the Sun in the ecliptic on any day in the year. The alti- 
tude, declination, time of rising, setting, etc., of the Sun are also shown. 




12-iNCH GLOBE, TRIPOD STAND. 

No. 20, Nickel Plate, Complete $40.00. 

*' 21, Polished Brass, " .... 35.00. 



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Oiu* list embraces a large number of styles, includ- 
ing several fine Library Globes, as well as Slated Globes, or 

" Spherical Blackboards, " for use in the study of Geometry, Map- 

These Globes are sold on their merit. 

Sizes, from 3 to 30 inch- 
es in diameter. 



drawing, Navigation; etc. 




Prices, from $1.50 to 
$150.00. 
Our Globe Manual 

illustrates fully the use of 
Globes. Price, by mail, 35 
cents. 

The following are 
among the advantages 
of our Globes: 

1. They show all the latest 
political changes and the 
principal topographical fea- 
tures, according to the latest 
discoveries, 

2. Outlines of natural and 
political divisions are dis- 
tinctly given. 

3. Ocean Currents are 
represented on many of the 
Globes. 

4. They are made oipapiei- 

mache, and covered with a 

composition that cannot be 

easily dented or broken. 

They are impervious to water, 

and when soiled may be 

cleaned with a damp cloth 

or sponge. 

[Note. — We wish to especially 
caution purchasers against Globes 
which are offered at suspiciously 
low prices. It must be remem- 
bered that the durabihty of Globes 

MBRARY GLOBE. J^^J^.f "n^s" que^it ™; 

No. I, 12 Inch $50.00. prices, depend very largely upon 

the construction of the shell up- 
on which the plate is mounted. The nature of this shell cannot be discerned from 
the outside, and Globes of the most worthless materials are frequently offered for 
sale at prices below the cost of a good article. Such a Globe is easily ruined. 

5. The Horizons of Nos. 28, 29, 46 and 47 are on separate layers 

of Avood glued together so as to cross grains, rendering them light and 

very strong. 



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6. The 8-inch Globes are convenient for measurement, there being 
i,ooo miles to every inch on the surface. 

7. Twenty-four meridians are represented, which make the reckon- 
ing of time very easy, being one hour for each meridian. 




LIBRARY GLOBE. 

No. 2, 12 Inch, - - $75.00. 

8. They are of the most convenient size for general use, and where 
provided with horizons or meridians, are movable on their equatorial 
axis, allowing of convenient inverting for examination of the Southern 
hemisphere. 

9. Parts representing water are colored blue, which, besides making 
a better looking globe, prevents their showing signs of "wear. 



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We are prepared to furnish goods at prices that defy 
competition in first-class work. 

12-INCH GLOBES. 




Bracket Globe— Complete. 

No. 30, - $23.00. 




High Round Stand— Complete. High Round Stand— Meridian. 

No. 22. Brass, - $30.00. No. 24. Brass, - $27.00. 

" 23. Wood, - 25.00, " 25. Wood, - 22.00. 



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12-INOH GLOBES. 




Bracket Globe— Meridian. 



Bracliet Globe— Plain. 



No. 31, - - $20.00. No. 32, - - $16,00. 

These Bracket Globes are attached to the wall, thus pre- 
venting the possibility of being upset. The globes are easily detached 
for handling in the presence of the class, and can be instantly replaced. 




Higli Wood Stand-Plain 



Low Bronzed Stand— Complete. 



No. 26, 



iiS.oo. ■ No. 27, 



$30.00. 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




Low Wood stand— Complete. 

No. 28. 12-inch, - $33.00. 

No. 29. Same, with compass, 3S-oo. 



8-INCH GLOBES. 





High Round Stand— Complete. 



No. 40. Brass, 
No. 41. Wood. 



$15.00. 
12.00. 



High Round Stand— Meridian. 



No. 42. Brass, 
No. 43. Wood, 



$13.00. 
10.00. 



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8 IWCH GLOBES. 





High Round Stand— Semi-Meridian. Higii Round Stand— Plain. 

No. 43)^. Wood, - $9.00. No. 44. Wood, - $8.00. 





Low Bronzed Stand— Complete. Low Wood Stand— Complete. 

No. 45, - $15.00. No. 46, - $16.00. 

No. 47. Same, Witll compass, 17.00. 





Bracket— Complete. 

No. 48, - $14.00. Bracket-Plain. 

" 49. With Meridian only, 12.00. No. 50, - $10.00. 



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We furnish with all 8 and 12-inch globes an excellent new 
style Hinged Case, that can be fastened to the wall, forming a book 
and apparatus case, see next page. Globe Manuals accompany- 
all globes above 6 inch without charge. 

6-INCH GLOBES. 





High Stand- 
No. 61. Wood, - $6.50. 



High Stand- 
No. 62. Wood, 



$5. 




Bracl(et— Meridian. Bracitet— Plain. Hemisphere Giobes. 

No. 6^, - $6.50. No. 64, - $5.00. No. 66, - $5.00. 



5 and 3-INCH GLOBES. 






High Stand-Plain. 

No. 70. 5 in., $3.50. 



Hemisphere Globes. High Stand— Plain. 

No. 82. 3 in., $1.50. No, 80. 3 inch, $1.50. 



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Hinged Globe Case. 


The above cut shows a very neatly arranged Hinged Globe 


Case (with lock and key), which is sent free with all 8 and 12-inch 


globes. It is easily arranged as a cabinet for the school room. 






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Slated Globes. 


For the Study of Map Drawing, Spherical Geometry, Trigonometry and Navigation. 


1 2-inch, Stand and Mountings like No. 27, - - $20.00 


12 " " " " " 26, - • 18.00 


8 " " " " " 45, - - 10.00 


8 " " " " " 44, - - 8.00 


6 " " " " " 61, - - 5.00 



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The Mac Vicar Tellurian Globe. 



8 inch, $4:0.00. 



12 inch, $60.00. 



DESCRIPTION OF PARTS. 

A. The Globe. 

B. The Revolving Equator. 

C. The Circle used to represent either the Horizon or Circle of Illu- 
mination. 

D. The Circle used to represent the limit of the Twilight Belt. 
M. A Direction Index. 

N. A Time Index. 

U. A Calendar Index. 

S. A Ball representing the centre around which the earth revolves. 

L. A Pointer indicating the sun's vertical rays. 



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The MacVicar Tellurian Globe 

is the latest, simplest, and best device ever presented for illustrating Geog- 
raphy and the elements of Astronomy. It is the product of many years' 
experience m the class room, and, hence, is thoroughly practical. 

The globe is a Working Model of the earth in its relation to 
the sun. The horizon and other parts are so constructed that in every 
illustration the globe represents the earth's real position, and its relation 
to the sun. 

It is so complete in its construction that it can be used by any 
teacher, and even by pupils twelve years of age. 

Every, attachment can be readily removed ; hence, nothing need 
ever be used on the globe that is not necessary to illustrate the problem 
in hand. This enables the teacher to adapt his illustrations to the 
capacity and pecuKar circumstances of his pupils. Complex problems 
can be presented in steps, and thus the naked truth be exhibited so 
that the most difficult points can be readily comprehended even by young 
pupils. 

The device unites in one apparatus, in the most convenient 
and substantial shape, and at much less expe7tse, the best form of Globe 
and the best form of Tellurian. It illustrates, also, in a more simple 
and philosophic manner than can be done by the use of both of these 
devices, all problems relating to the phenomena of day and night, 
change of seasons, twilight, rising and set- 
ting of the sun, the apparent daily motion 
of the sun across the horizon, the motion 
of the earth in its orbit, etc. 

The method of illustrating these 
and all other questions pertaining to 
Mathematical Geography and 
the Elements of Astronomy, is 
presented in the Handbook or Man- 
ual which accompanies each globe. The 
handbook is carefully and fully illustrated ^ 
with cuts, which exhibit in a clear and 
simple manner the course to be pursued 
in presentmg each topic. 

The Manual, separate, price 50 cents. ^his cut represents the Mac 

r, • , ,1 • • ,- ,, , Vicar Tellurian Globe adjusted 

Special catalogue, giving full expla- , , , -^ ^ 

^ o J o o r- ^Q show the sun s apparent 

nation of this wonderful invention, sent daily motion, and the apparent 
on receipt of three cent stamp. motion of the Celestial Sphere. 




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Geared Tellurian. 

No. 8. Brass mounted, with day circle and compass, - $17.00 

" 8 A. Brass, with compass, best, new cog-wheel move- 
ment, dispensing with cord, complete, - - 25.00 
The Tellurian is an instrument designed to illustrate all the 

phenomena resulting from the relations of Sun, Earth and Moon to 

each other, and show the causes of the following : 

1. Succession of Day and Night, and their difference in length. 

2. Changes of the Seasons : Vernal Equinox, Summer Solstice, 
Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. 

3. Changes of the Moon : New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, 
Third Quarter, with the intermediate phases. 

4. Solar and Lunar Eclipses — Partial and Total. 

5. Philosophy of the Tides; their daily recurrence ; Spring and 
Neap Tides, etc. 

6. Precession or falling back of the Equinoxes. 

7. Differences of Solar and Siderial Time. 

8. Rising of the Sun north of east in Summer. 

Many otlier things will suggest themselves to the practical 
teacher. The recent miprovements in gearing, compass attachment, 
finish, etc., render this one of the niost useful and beautiful 
pieces of apparatus that any school room or college can possess. 



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Improyed Brass Orrery. 

No. 12. Brass Standard Orrery, highly finished, - $20.00 

The Orrery shows the proportional size and relative position 
of the planets comprising the solar system, and their relative times of 
revolution around the Sun. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, Mars, 
Jupiter with its four moons, Saturn with its eight, Uranus with its six, 
Neptune with its two, are shown revolving each in its separate orbit 
around the sun. The instrument is invaluable in teaching the young 
the first principles of Astronomy, and can be used to explain annual 
revolutions, eclipses, etc, 

CELESTIAL SPHERE. 

No. 15. Brass mounted, - $15.00 
This instrument is designed to assist the 
student in Astronomy, shows the Concave 
Sphere, Meridians, Equator and Poles of 
the heavens, also the Zodiac divided into 
the signs and degrees and Ecliptic. It il- 
lustrates most of the foundation questions 
arising in the study of Astronomy. 



IMPROYED GYROSCOPE. 

No. 17. Brass, having 3 rings, $15.00 
" 18. " " 2 rings, 12.00 




Improved Gyroscope. 



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School and Church Bells. 

We take pleasure in announcing a large reduction in the 
prices of our bells. These bells are cast from composite metal — in part 
steel, and are entirely different from all other bells. They should be 
judged entirely on their own merits, and not be confounded with the 
various kinds of iron, amalgam and (so-called) steel composition bells 
offered the public. 

These bells average in price less than one-half as much as the cop- 
per and tin composition bells and mountings, and all over 24 inches are 
warranted against breakage twice as long — two years. As to quality, 
they are fine toned, can be heard as far as copper and tin bells of same 
size, and are more durable. 



SCHOOL BELLS. 



Diameter. 
18 inches, 
20 •* 
24 " 



Diameter. 
26 inches, 
28 

32 

'36 
40 

44 M 
48 ',U 
54 



Weight, 


Bell and Mounting. 
100 lbs., 


Price. 
$13.00 




130 


<i 




18 


00 


:hur( 


190 

:h 


B 


ELLS. 


25 


00 


Weight. 
175 lbs.. 






Bell and Mounting. 
325 lbs., 




Price. 
$40.00 


225 " 






375 " 




50.00 


350 " 
550 " 






550 " 
800 " 




75.00 
110.00 


750 " 






1,050 " 




150.00 


1,000 " 






1,350 " 




200.00 


1,300 " 






1,800 " 




250.00 


2,100 " 






2,900 " 




400.00 



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Call Bells. 

The Call Bell in the school room and Sunday-school has be- 
come almost as necessary as the principal and the superintendent. It 
cannot be dispensed with. 

We present below cuts of our leadinj^ styles. They are beautifully 
finished and of rich tone. 




JVb. 1. 

Gilt base, cut half size, $1.20. 

The following cuts represent the bells one-fifth size. 




No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 

Fancy bronze Nickel plated and Fancy bronze base, 

base, $1.10. verde. 90c. 

Gilt or fancy base, Gilt base, $1.20. 
$1.60. 



No. 5. 

Black base, $1.40. 




No. 6. No. 7. JVo. *. No. 9. 

Plain beaded base, Fancy bronze base, Fancy bronze base. Fancy bronze base, 

$1.75. $1.50. $1.80. $1.20. 



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SCHOOL ROOM CLOCKS. 




DROP EXTRA, CALENDAR, 

No. 87. Eight day strike. 
12 inch dial. Height, 26 inches. 
Price, $9.75. 



DROP OCTAGON. R. C. 

No. 88. Eight daytime. 12 
inch dial. Height, 26 inches. 
Price, $6.oo. 
Eight day strike, Price, $7.25. 



Tiie Drop Extra, Calendar Clock, No. 87, is equal to 
any that can be offered at the price. The calendar is self-operating, 
accurate and very useful. 

The Drop Octagon, R. C. Clock, No. 88, is one of our 

latest styles. It has a large dial, keeps perfect time, and is offered at a 
low price. 

These clocks are of the best American manufacture, highly 
finished, and reliable time keepers. 

They are specially designed for use in class roonis, public 

halls, etc., having been selected from among a large number of styles 

as best suited for that purpose. 



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Chapel Clock. 

This finely finished eight- 
day clock is elegant in design, 
and a reliable time-keeper. 
The polished pendulum is en- 
closed in a case with glass 
firont. The extra size of its 
dial will recommend it for use 
in the largest school rooms, 
where, besides its usefulness^ 
it will be of value as an orna- 
ment. 

For chapels, public 
halls, offices and stores 
this clock is well adapted, and 
is not too large for medium 
sized class rooms. 




Desk Clock. 

ONE DAY TIME. 

No. 90. Lever. Nickel. 
Height, 6y2, inches. 
Price, $2.50. 



EIGHT DAY TIME. 

No. 89. Height, 32 inches. 
Price, $10.00. 



This little clock keeps accurate 
time, is graceful in appearance, and is 
made to stand on a desk or shelf, or 
to hang against the wall. 



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The "Royal" Calendar Clock and Inkstand. 

No. 91. One day lever time. Height, 71^ inches. Price, $7.50, 
A most useful and convenient article for the teacher's desk. 
It is at once a double inkstand, clock and self- operating calendar; and 
has a pen rack, and a cup for loose pens and pins. It is a good time- 
keeper, well finished and graceful in design, combining so many useful 
qualities that a teacher who wishes to be " up to the times " can hardly 
afford to be without one. 

Patent Self-Acting Spring Tape Measures. 

With h7iproved Method of Fastening Ring to Tape. 

Each. 
30. 3 Feet, Silver-Plated, Gravitation Catch, $0.40 

31- 5 " " " " " .45 

32. 6 '^ " " " " .50 

60. 3 " Nickel- Plated, Side Catch, - .40 

61. 5 " " " " - .45 

62. 6 " " , " " - .50 



40. 3 Feet, Plastic, Gravitation Catch, $0.40 




Edee Catch, 



•45 
•50 
.40 

•45 
.50 



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PORTABLE BLACKBOARDS. 

With a Perfect Slate Surface, ?nade with Eureka Liquid Slating. 

Style A. — Slated Cloth or Paper, Mounted on Rollers, with 
Hooks and Rings for hanging up. 



MP 



f^OyOt Q^ 



a/nd jMum. 






No. I 





Sizes. 


Cloth. 


Paper. 


I 


2x2 feet, $o.8o 


$0.60 


2 


3x3 " 


2.00 


1-35 


3 


3x4 " 


2.70 


1.80 


4 


3x5 " 


3-37 


2.25 


5 


3x6 " 


4-05 


2.70 


6 


3x7 " 


4.70 


3-15 


7 


4x5 ' 


4-5° 


3.00 


8 


4x6 " 


5.40 


3.60 


9 


4x 7 ' 


6.30 


4.20 



Music Lines, extra, $1.00. 



STYLE A. 

Any size to order— cloth, 22 cents ; paper, 15 cents, per square foot. 

Our Flexible Cloth and Paper Boards, as above, have an excellent 
surface and are very durable. They can be rolled up and carried 
easily. The Patent Dustless Crayon is the best for these boards. 



Style B. — Blackboards 
of Wood, with Ash or Wal- 
nut Frame. 

Outside Measure. 
No. 1.2 X 3 feet, 

" 2. 2yi x3>^ " 

" 3-3 ^AV^ " 
" 4. 3>^x5 
" 5. 4 x6 

Masic Lines, extra (as shown on 

No. 3), $1.00. STYLE B. 

These Blackboards are like style " D " without the standards, and 
are covered on both sides with an enduring surface of Eureka 
Liquid Slating-. 

Style C, Blackboard Support.— This Movable Support 
allows the Board to reverse either way. A shelf beneath forms a con- 
venient ledge for eraser, crayon, etc. It is adapted to all sizes of our 
Blackboards, 




For Blackboards, Nos. i, 2, or 3, 
" 4 or 5, 



Ash. 
^5.00 

6.50 



Walnut. 
$6.00 

7-50 



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STYLE D. 



Double Eeyersible Blackboard. 

style D. 

Outside Measure. 

No. I. 3 X3J ft.,wath Stand, $12.00 

" 2. 3J X 5 " " 15.00 

" 3. 4' x6 " " 18.00 

Music Lines, extra, $1.00. 

These Blackboards are very 
perfect and complete. Both 
sides are finished. They may 
be reversed instantly, either 
vertically or horizontally, and 
are quite firm and steady Avhen 
in use. A shelf beneath forms 
a convenient ledge for crayon, 
eraser, etc. 

Style E, Slated Cloth and Paper. — To supply a ready 
Blackboard anywhere, this Slated Paper or Cloth will prove very 
acceptable. Teachers and popular lecturers will find it invaluable. 

The surface is as perfect as one of the Eureka Blackboards, and it is 
^perfectly elastic. 

From three to four feet in width, and of any length desired. 

Paper, Black or Green, per square yard, - - $1.00 
Cloth, " " " "... 1.50 

School officers and teachers who are unwilling to incur the trouble 
and expense of applying the Liquid Slating, may secure a good and 
cheap Blackboard by tacking Slated Paper to the wall, and nailing 
mouldings or strips of wood around the edge for protection and orna- 
ment. 

Best Solid Stone Slate Blackboards, all sizes, per square foot, 45 cents. 

The Home Blackboard. 

For use in the family circle this Black- 
board is unsurpassed. It is nicely fin- 
ished and mounted on a strong adjusta- 
ble frame, with shelf to hold crayons, 
eraser, etc. 

The writing surface is 2 x 3 feet, 
supported at a height convenient for 
children of any age, or even adults. 

As a means of home education it 
will prove of great value. Price, $5.00. 




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67 



Portable Blackboard Stretcher. 

The handiest thing in the world for Sunday-school workers, Day Schools 

and Lecturers I 

This stretcher consists of a 
light frame upon which a common 
cloth or paper flexible blackboard 
is stretched like a drum head when 
in use, so as to receive the crayon 
easily, while folding compactly for 
carrying or packing. 

It is convenient, cheap and dura- 
ble, and, as it takes the place of the 
roller and moulding of the ordinary 
blackboard, adds little or nothing ^^ 
either to its weight or bulk. 

Those on cloth thoroughly slated 
both sides, give two boards in 

one, FOLDED FOR CARRYING. 

Prices of Portable Blackboards and Stretchers. 

Cloth or paper, with rings for hanging. 

Cloth. Paper. 
$1.50 $1.20 




No. I. 

" 2. 

" 3- 

" 4- 

" 5- 



Sizes. 

2X2 feet, 

3x4" 
3x5 " 



2.50 
3-30 

4.00 

4.85 



1.80 

2.40 

3.00 

3-5° 



No. 



6. 

7- 
8. 

9- 
10. 



Sizes. Cloth. Paper. 

3x7 feet, $5.60 $4.05 



Music Lines, extra. 



4x4 
4x5 ' 
4x6 ' 
4x7 ' 
$1.00 



4-25 
5.20 
6.30 
7-3° 



3-25 
3-7° 
4-50 



I I 1 I ' ' I ' ' I ' ' I ' ' 1 ' M ' M 




This set of Blackboard Instruments is made of wood, 
and contains a 36-inch Straight Edge, a 24-inch T Square, a 24-inch 
Triangle, and a 15^-inch Protractor. Price per set, - $5.00. 




68 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Patent Dustless Crayons. 

Exact Size of Patent Dustless Crayon. ( ] 

Eureka! No dust! No dirt! The advailtag^es are: 

1. It is several times more durable than the common crayon, and 
therefore cheaper. 

2. It Avill not glaze the board nor scratch it. 

3. It is DUSTLESS, hence the throat and lungs of teachers and 
scholars are not injured by inhaling the dust. 

4. The hands and clothing are not soiled, and work at the board 
is no longer repulsive. 

5. The scholar returns to his seat cheerfully and cleanly, instead 
of "hating to touch anything," and wiping his fingers on his handker- 
chief or on his clothing. 

6. It makes a firm, clean mark, and teachers of penman- 
ship and drawing can shade with it from heavy to hair lines perfectly — 
or can carry it upon the person without inconvenience. 

7. The shape and touch of this crayon are attractive, and it " feels 
good " in the hand. 

8. Any teacher who has felt the annoyances we have described, 
will enjoy the entire freedom from them which this crayon affords. 

Samples sent free on application. Price, $1.00 per gross. 

One of many who are now using these Crayons writes: "It 
gives me great pleasure to say, that the Crayons furnished are greatly 
superior to any we have ever before used. They leave no dust on the 
Blackboards, nor do they make the surrounding atmosphere unhealthy 
by the diffusion of minute particles which the pupils must inhale. Last 
week, at a meeting of the trustees and teachers of three townships, 
held in the public school-house in this place, the unanimous verdict 
rendered was as above." 

Map and Blackboard Pointers. 

lVi//i or Without Lineal Measzire. 
For map drawing and other work requiring the measurement of dis- 
tances on the board, we furnish pointers with the scale of feet and 
inches correctly marked. Both styles of the same size and length, and 
are convenient for common school use on maps or blackboards. 

Price of Pointer, plain, - 25 cents. 

Price of Pointer, with Lineal Measure, - 30 cents. 





CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 69 

Andrews' Dustless Blackboard Eraser. 

The Best Ever Made I 

A good Blackboard Eraser, of proper size, lianclsoiiie and 
durable, has long been 
wanted. After much ex- 
periment and study, we are 
at last able to produce an 
Eraser as near perfection 
as can be made or desired ! 
The above cuts illustrate, on a small scale, the " Patent Dust- 
less Eraser." This Eraser is called for from all parts of the 
United States, and other manufacturers send us large orders, acknowl- 
edging that this is the best and handsomest article of the kind ever 
sold. 

1. It is made of woven felt, so arranged as to form the rubbing 
surface of the ends of the fiber. 

2. It thus cleans the board more thoroughly, and is 

longer "wearing out than any other Eraser. 

3. This is no guess-work. We know it by actual test made 
upon the Andrews' Dustless and four others of the latest and 
best erasers in the market. The names will be given to any one inter- 
ested. To make the test, a slated block was attached to a lathe, and 
the eraser held against it by a weight. A fresh blackboard was taken 
for each eraser, and the weight was the same in each case. The result 
was that Eraser No. i was worn out with 42,000 revolutions; No. 2, 
in 64,800; No. 3, in 66,000; No. 4, in 78,000; Andrew^s' Dust- 
less, in 120,000 ! We are ready to repeat the test in public. 

4. By holding the rubbing surface flat against the board, all the 
dust will be gathered and held. 

5. They are easily cleaned by rapping the rubbing surface lightly 
on a board. If desired, they may be regularly cleaned by the janitor, 
outside the room, which is thus kept wholly free from chalk-dust. 

6. N. B. — The use of the Patent Dustless Crayons with the 
Dustless Eraser, completely solves the problem of keeping the 
school-room free from chalk-dust. 

Price, $1.80 per dozen. Sample, only, mailed for 15 cents. 
White Wool Blackboard Eraser, 2^ x 7^ inches, per dozen, $2 00 
Chamois " " 21^ x 71^ " " 2 00 

Carpet " "2x7" " 2 75 



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The Star Blackboard Easel. 

This Blackboard 
Easel is made for use in 
class-rooms, lecture -halls, 
Sunday-schools, and places 
where ecouoiuy of 
space is an object. It 
can be had either with or 
without the acljiistable 
map supijort, which is 
attached in such a way 
that it can be readily re- 
moved entirely, or folded 
down behind the rear 
standard. 

The Easel occupies but 
little space, and can be 
folded up in a moment 
and put away when not 
wanted. 
Price, Ash, with 

Iron Heads, $3-oo 

Ash, with Iron Heads 

and Map Support, 4.50 
Black Walnut, with 

Bronzed Head, 4.00 
Black Walnut, with 
^ Bronzed Head and 

Map Support, 6.00 



cui'<z/UZ (^2^ouLc 



UZ4-7. k^-U 







Crayons. 



Patent Dustless Crayons, 

White Chalk Crayons, . - . . . 
Colored " " assorted colors, - 

Pastelle Crayons, assorted colors, 6 in a box, 

£< u ii a j.^ '.: 

£^2Z. Black Conte Crayons, in Wood, No. i, 2, - 



Per gross, $1.00 

.25 



Per doz. boxes, 
Per doz., 



429. " 
430. 

431. White 

432. Black 

433- " 

434- " 

435. White 

436. •' 



3, 



" Velours, very soft, 

square, No. i, 2,3, doz. in box, 
round, " i, 2, 3, '' 

round polished, " 

square, No. i, 2, 3, " 

round, '•' i, 2, " 



1.25 

•75 

1.50 

.60 

.90 

1-25 
.60 

.20 

.40 

.60 

.20 

.40 



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71 




THE CRAYON HOLDER, FULL SIZE. 

Where tlie COllimon chalk crayon is used, a convenient 
and durable crayon holder is a necessity ; but those who use the 
Dustless Crayon will need no contrivance of this kind to prevent 
soiling their hands while working at the blackboard. The crayon 
holder illustrated above is adapted to receive an entire crayon (which 
should be inserted small end first). It is light and pleasant to the 
touch, and cannot soil the dress or fingers, while it is short enough to 
be held easily and naturally in the hand, as a crayon. Being made en- 
tirely of wood, it will not scratch the blackboard. In utihzing 
the small pieces of crayons which cannot be held in the fingers it will 
quickly save more than its cost. Price, per doz., 75 cents. 
Sample mailed for lo cents. 




Blackboard Dividers. — These Dividers 
are made to receive and hold crayons in the same 
manner as the crayon holder. The head is fitted 
with a strong set-screw that cannot get out of order, 
and each leg is adapted to receive a crayon, which 
is frequently a great convenience in drawing parallel lines, and for vari- 
ous other purposes. A piece of wood with a sharp metallic point may 
be inserted in either leg instead of a crayon, thus rendering the length 
of the legs adjustable. These Dividers are very strong and not 
clumsy. Price, $1.00. 



72 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

EUREKA LIQUID SLATING. 

Tke Oldest atid Most Popular. The Cheapest and Best. 

*' The superiority of the eye over all other senses, as a means 
of education, is undeniable, for it has been demonstrated beyond a 
question. No other system of teaching renders the acquisition of 
knowledge so pleasant and agreeable to the learner." — Johnson's 
Natural Philosophy. 

OlU" best educators recognize the importance of having the 
largest possible blackboard surface for most kinds of illustration. The 
question is: How is the best blackboard to be ob- 
tained ? 

Its many years' successful use in the largest schools in 
the country justify us in claiming superiority for the Eureka Liquid 
Slating, for perfect surface and durability. We use it in 
all our portable blackboards. 

It makes a smooth and durable surface when applied to 
plaster (hard finish), paper, boards, old blackboards or walls; and either 
common Chalk, Patent Dustless Crayon or Slate Pencil can be used. 

It is superior to the Stone Slate surface, as it does not be- 
come greasy, and cannot be scratched. 

It will not crack, blister, nor glaze. 

It is impervious to water, and cannot scale or rub off. 

Pencil and crayon marks can be erased with perfect ease. 

It produces a perfect slate surface. 

The color Toll never change ; and on the black surface 
a crayon mark can be seen from any angle in the school-room. 

'^ff' The hard finish plaster should be dry before the slating is put 
on, otherwise it may flake ; which will never happen if the wall has had 
four weeks for drying. Never put the slating on a damp surface ! 

Prices of Eureka Liquid Slating. 

Pints, - - - $1.25 Half-Gallons, - - $4.25 



Quarts, ... 2.25 



Gallons, - - • 8.00 



1^^ Full directions for applying attached to every can. A gallon 
will cover about 400 square feet. 

The slating can be transported safely by express, and it may be 
applied during school hours, as it dries in a few minutes and hardens in 
a day. 

Fine Flat Brushes for applying Liquid Slating, 50 and 75 cts. each. 



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73 




Maps and Charts. 



Of the various methods of pictorial illustrations, that of 
Maps and Charts, on a large scale, for the use of teachers and lecturers, 
is the most serviceable, as it enables the instructor to make his demon- 
strations to a whole class, school, or public audience of thousands even, 
with the same time and effort required to give the explanation to one 
learner alone. 

Especially useful and necessary are such Maps and Charts in 
common schools and academies, where the learners are beginners, and 
consequently their powers of abstraction as yet undeveloped. The 
"A, B, C's" and "ab ab's," addition and multiplication tables, etc., 
are now extensively printed in the form of charts, and at once placed 
before the whole school or class, and are thus taught with a hundred- 
fold greater success than by the old method of calling up one youngster 
at a time and pointing with a pin at a dozen small, obscure, half-oblit- 
erated letters, and telling him " that is A, that is B, that is C," etc., 
then, shutting the book, sending- him to his seat to fold his hands for 
the next two or three hours, and gaze at nothing but the bla7ik walls. 

With appropriate diagrams and drawings, properly demon- 
strated, scholars become fascinated in studying those principles and sci- 
ences which before they dreaded, and pronounced tedious and irksome. 

Maps and Charts, properly placed, give a school-room a 
cheerful appearance. Pupils become familiar with them by frequent 
observation, and thus unconsciously store their minds with valuable 
information, which remains indelible through life. 



74 BAKEE, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




Charts of Writing. 

These Charts are so printed as to present the appearance of 
Superior Blackboard Writing. 

Eacli Capital Letter appears by itself, with analysis 
and printed description. The letters are of very large size, the capitals 
and loop letters being a foot in height, and the small letters in propor- 
tion, so that they may be distinctly seen across the largest school-room. 
They are mounted upon a roller in such a manner that one page is ex- 
hibited at a time. 

Forty- seven Charts, mounted on roller, sold separately or 
bound together. Size, 19 x 24 inches. Price, per set, $4.50 

Johnson's Solar System Chart. 

This beautiful Chart is on blue ground with white lines, 
exhibiting most effectively, at one view, the Solar System, embracing : 
the Sun ; the Primary Planets and their orbits ; the Secondary Planets, 
or Satellites, and their orbits ; Comets and their orbits, and a section of 
the orbit of the Sun ; together with a representation of the Zodiac and 
many fixed Stars. 

It is an elegant and useful Chart for the school-room. Size, 
38 X 42 inches. Price $5.00 

Johnson's Indestructible Alphabet Charts. 

The letters on these Charts are printed in bright yellow on a 
black ground, with a neat border, and are suitable models for the 
children to fix in their minds. The Charts are two feet wide and 
three feet long, and are made in the same durable manner as 
Johnson's Philosoi)hical Charts, described on page 76. 
They will remain bright and fresh for generations. 

No. 1 contains the Capital Letters, Arabic Figures, and Roman 

Numerals, - - - - - - - Price $2.00 

No. 2 contains Small Letters, and Punctuation Points, " 2.00 



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Monroe's Primary Reading-Charts. 

A Treasure for Primary Teachers and for Family Instruction. 

The task of Teaching and Learning to Read is 

made easy and delightful by the use of these charts. We have no 
hesitation in announcing them as the most useful, practical and econom- 
ical of all the means yet devised for teaching the first steps in reading. 
Arranged for convenient use in three different ways : 

1. By hanging against the 
wall by strings from each end of 
binder. 

2. By use of a Back-Frame 
which can be placed on a desk or 
table (see cut). 

3. By use of the Back-Frame 
on a movable floor easel. 

The Charts can be rolled and 
sent by mail without injury. 

Prices. — Full Series, 
50 numbers, $7.00; Abridged 
Series, 24 numbers, $4.50; 
Back- Frames, 50 cents; Eas- 
els, $1.00. 

They may be used 
as an introduction to any 
series of reading - 
books, being so arranged ^--««««^asSi^giJ|5^^ HffO' 

that they admit the use of -^^^^^^^^^^^^^ij^jji^.T illiBlirSy~' 
either the "Plionic," "Word," or "Alphabetic Method." 

Flill and Explicit Directions are given on the margin 
of the Charts, so that the most inexperienced teacher may understand 
how to use them. One chief excellence of the lesson is that it is almost 
impossible to use them in the humdrum, drawling 
style. The thoughts are natural, and their expression so easy that 
they almost "say themselves" in a sprighdy and animated tone, such 
as should alone be permitted in the reading of little children. 

The Charts comprise fifty numbers, 25 x 30 
inches in size. They are beautifully printed on Manilla 
Parchment Paj)er (stronger and more durable than pasteboard) 
with large, clear type made expressly for the purpose, and illustrated 
with pictures drawn with special adaptation to the lessons. They are 
mounted in the most convenient form for practical use. 

A Single Set will do service for several years. 




76 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Johnson's Philosophical Charts. 

The rapid diffusion of scientific knowledge, and the con- 
tinually widening field of its application to the useful pursuits of life, 
have created an increased demand for new and improved means of 
teaching the various branches of Natural Philosophy. But no want is 
more generally felt, especially in Common Schools and Academies, than 
the necessity of Philosophical Diagrams, in the form of Wall Charts, to 
supply the absence of the expensive Philosophical Apparatus. 

To meet this "want is the object of Dr. Johnson's Philo- 
sophical series of Indestrvictible School Charts. 




The method of making these Charts is entirely new. There 
is neither paper, ink, printing-press, tape, rollers, nor varnish employed 
in their manufacture. 

They are j)rinted by hand, in bright yellow lines, with im- 
perishable oil-colors, on enameled jet-black cloth. 

They are as smooth as glass, as soft and pliable as silk, and hang 
perfectly fiat on the wall. 

They are as durable as a stone school-house ; they could be em- 
ployed as table-covers, scrubbed with soap and water for years, and 
^^en be employed as charts. The background is jet-black and far 
superior to any ink-printing. Each Chart is surrounded with a highly 
colored border, giving it a remarkably neat and lively appearance. 

The mounting consists of an oval stick inclosed in a hem at the 
top and bottom, thus avoiding paste, binding, nails, and clumsy rollers. 

The Series consists of ten Charts, each 33 x 54 inches, em- 
bracing more than five hundred diagrams, on the various 
branches of Natural Philosophy as taught in schools. Each diagram 
being carefully drawn, and standing out in bold yellow lines on a jet- 
black surface, constituting the most complete, most durable, and cheap- 
est substitute for the Philosophical Apparatus ever published. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 17 

These Charts are to Natural Philosophy what blackboards 
are to mathematics, and what maps are to geography. 

Every drawing" is made simple as possible, without omitting 
any part necessary to give a clear illustration of the essential law or 
principle to be explained. 

Each cliagrana is numbered, and provided with designating 
letters sufficiently large and bold to be seen across the recitation-room. 

Chart I. illustrates Laws of Matter, Force, Motion, and Mechanics, with 44 
diagrams. 

Chart II. illustrates Hydrostatics and Pneumatics, with 54 diagrams. 

Chart III. illustrates Hydraulics, with 39 diagrams. 

Chart IV. illustrates the Laws of Heat and Construction of the Steam-Engine, 
with 43 diagrams. 

Chart V. illustrates Optics, with 53 diagrams. 




Chart VI. illustrates Optics, Laws of Vision, and the Construction of Optical 
Instruments, with 50 diagrams. 

Chart VII. illustrates Magnetism, with 30 diagrams ; and Acoustics, with 33 
diagrams. 

Chart VIII. illustrates Electricity, Galvanism, Electro-Magnetism, Magnetic- 
Electricity, Thermo-Electricity, etc., with 66 diagrams. 

Chart IX. illustrates the Solar System and many of the General Laws of 
Astronomy, with 16 diagrams. 

Chart X. Astronomical, illustrating the Seasons, Tides, Eclipses, etc., with 23 
diagrams. 

The price is within the reach of all ; so that no school 
need have excuse for being without these excellent and elaborate Charts. 

Price of the entire set, with Key, $40.00 

Charts are sold singly, each, ..-..- 4.00 

While the intelligent teacher will be able to make invaluable use 
of the Charts, with whatever text-book he may have in his school, or 
even without any text-book, yet, to render them more useful to the 
cause of education, they are accompanied with a Key (Johnson's 
Natural Philosophy), which is an octavo volume of five hundred 
pages, containing reduced fac-siiniles and an explanation of all the 
Chart diagrams. 
Johnson's Natural Philosophy, Price, - - $3- 00 



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Andrews' Anatomical and Physiological Charts. 

Drawn, Engraved on Copper and Printed at the Celebrated Lithographic 

Press of the Messrs. W. &^ A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Prepared tinder the Directio?i of Dr. William Turner, 

Prof of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh. 

These charts are issued in the 
best style of the Messrs. Johnston, and 
are entirely new, and superior in plan 
and execution to anything of the kind 
heretofore offered in this country. 
Their greatest value lies in their 
simplicity and clearness. They 
consist of complete and beautiful en- 
gravings of the human skeleton, liga- 
ments, muscles, etc., as shown in the 
table below, together with separate 
drawings of the principal parts on larger 
scales, and highly magnified views illus- 
trating various interesting structures as 
they appear under the microscope. 

The handbooks which accompany 
these charts, and to which the figures 
in the engraving refer, are models of 
concise explanation, and, with the 
charts themselves and a good diction- 
ary, will afford any intelligent student 
a good knowledge of the construction 
of the human body, and the uses of the 
various parts. The teacher of the dis- 
trict school, with the aid of these charts, 
can illustrate in a course of familiar lec- 
ures the principles and most attractive 

points of the subject — so essential where Physiology is not made a 

regular branch of study. 

The Anatomical Charts consist of 




Sheet 


I., 


about 


21 X 27 inch 


Sheet 


II., 




21 X 27 " 


Sheet 


III., 




21 X 27 " 


Sheet 


IV., 




21 X 27 " 


Sheet 


v.. 




21 X 27 " 


Sheet 


VI., 




21 X 27 " 


Sheet 


VII. 




21 X 27 " 


Sheet VIII., 




21 X 27 " 



The Ligaments, - . . . 

The Muscles, - - - - 

The Heart and Arteries, - 

The Veins and Lungs, 

The Organs of Digestion, 

The Nervous System, - - - 

The Organs of Sense and Voice, 

Handbook fiu*nishecl with each complete set without extra 

charge. Handbooks to accompany single sheets, each 10 cents. 



2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 



CATALOaUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 79 

MitGhell's New Physical and Political Outline Maps. 

An Ornament of Value to every School-room^ Excelling all others in Beauty, 
Accuracy and Cheapness. 

These maps give the general features of Political 
and Physical Geography, including the Political Boundaries and 
the Principal Localities, the Mountain Chains, the River Courses, the 
Plateaus and the Plains. These features are all accurately set forth 
and are so represented as to be recognized at a glance. 

The Mountain Systems and Chains are represented after the 
manner employed in topographical maps. 

The Prominent Systems — those which are considered the back- 
bone of a' continent — may be distinguished at a glance. 

The River Courses are strongly and clearly defined. 

The Plateaus and Plains are represented by different tints to 
distinguish one from the other. 

Both Series are Beautifully Colored {either physically and 
politically, or politically only), varnished, and securely mounted on mus- 
lin, yet light and portable. 

Small Series, with or without names, on rollers, comprising : 

Size. Price. Size. Price. 



1. The Hemispheres, 24 x 28 in., $1.25 

2. North America, 24 x 28 in., 1.25 

3. The United States, 28 x 48 in., 2.50 



4. South America, 24x28 in., $1.25 

5. Europe, 24 x 28 in., 1.25 

6. Asia, 24 x 28 in., 1.25 
7. Africa, size, 24 x 28 in. Price, $1.25. 

Only $10.00 a set. A key gratis with each set. 

The lowest priced Wall-maps published. 

Large Series, without names, on rollers, comprising ; 



Size. Price 

1. The Hemispheres, 50 x 63 in., $3.50 

2. North America, 55 x 63 in., 3.50 

3. The United States, 49 x 74 in., 4.00 



Size. Price. 

4. South America, 52 x 63 in., $3.50 

5. Europe, 50 x 63 in., 3.50 

6. Asia, 55 x 63 in., 3.50 
7. Africa, size, 54 x 63 in. Price, $3.50. 

Only $20.00 a set. A key gratis with each set. 

It TVill be readily seen that these maps ax^far cheaper than 
any others published, and we believe that this advantage will be appreci- 
ated, especially when the fact is considered that this low l)rice 
does not interfere with their beauty or accuracy. 
they are the handsomest and cheapest maps published, 
they are the most accurate and useful maps published. 

In ordering, please specify particularly which size, and which style 
of coloring is desired. The attention of teachers, school officers and 
boards of education is invited to both of these series, as we believe that 
one or the other will be found adapted to every school. 



80 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Willson and Galkins's School and Family Charts. 

These beautiful Charts, 22 in number, each about 24 x 32 
inches, and abounding in colored illustrations, are designed, in 
connection with the Manual, to furnish the teacher all requisite aids in 
the system of Elementary Instruction by " Object" Lessons. 

No. I, introductory to the First Reading- Lessons, contains sixty 
familiar words, beginning with such as cap, cat, rat, etc., in type large 
enough to be read thirty feet distant, each word having its appropriate 
illustration. By the " object " method children learn words by sight, as 
they learn to recognize objects themselves ; and they thus begin to read 
before they know the letters of the alphabet. This is Nature's method, 
as opposed to the artificial system formerly in vogue. 

Nos. 2 to 6, inclusive, which are occupied by illustrated reading- 
lessons, furnish also, in connection with the Manual, the proper means 
of teaching Spelling, and the Rudiments of Composition, Numbers, 
and Drawing. 

Nos. 7 and 8 are devoted to Elementary Sounds and Phonetics ; 
and Nos. 9 and 10 to Writing, Drawing, and the Elements of Perspective. 

No. 1 1 is a Chart of Lines of a great variety of forms and posi- 
tions, and of Measures of Angles, of Length, and of Capacity; No. 12, 
of Forms and Solids; No. 13 presents a popular Adew of Colors ; 
No. 14 is a Chromatic Chart, giving, in connection with the Manual, a 
scientific account of Colors, their combinations, modification, tones, 
tints, and shades; their contrasts and harmonies in nature, dress, paint- 
ing, etc. , and the various effects produced by placing different colors in 
juxtaposition. 

No. 15, a Colored Zoological Chart, presents 20 Groups of 
Animals, designed to illustrate some of the economical uses of the 
Animal Kingdom. No. 1 6, also Zoological, gives, first, a general view 
of the entire Animal Kingdom, and of the several Races of 
Mankind; after which the Classification of the Mammalia (mostly quad- 
rupeds) is presented at length in a series of more than 300 Colored 
Figures of Animals. No. 18 concludes the first General Divi- 
sion of Animals — the Vertebrates — with Reptiles and Fishes: ITO 
Colored Figures. 

« No. 19, Botanical — a Chart of Leaves, Stems, Roots, and Flowers 
— will not only be found admirably adapted for a series of lessons on 
the Forms of some of the most common natural objects, but will lead 
children unconsciously to a knowledge of the leading principles of 
Botany. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 81 

No. 20 presents the Classification of the Vegetable Kingdom, both 
in accordance with the Linnaean system and the natural method — giv- 
ing the characteristics of the classes of the former, and grouping some 
of the leading families of the latter. 

Nos. 21 and 22 present a view of the "Economical Uses of 
Plants," as grouped in the following ten divisions, with colored illustra- 
tions: Our Common Plants, Common Root Plants, the Cereals or 
Corn Plants, Tropical Plants, Medicinal Plants, Plants used for Bever- 
ages, for Manufactures, for Coloring, and for Spices. 

Willson and Calkins's School and Family Charts, 

IN SHEETS. 

No. I. Elementary, .._.-- Price, $0.30 

" 2. Reading, .------" .30 

" 3. Reading, - - ' - - - - - " -So 

" 4. Reading, .---.-- " .30 

" 5. Reading, - - - - - - - " .30 

" 6. Reading, ------- " .30 

" 7. Elementary Sounds, - - - . - " .30 

" 8. Phonic Spelling, - - - - - - " .30 

" 9. Writing Charts, - - - - - - " .30 

" 10. Drawing and Perspective, ----- " .45 

" II. Lines and Measures, _----" .30 

" 12. Forms and Solids, .-----" .30 

" 13. Familiar Colors, accompanied by a set of Color-Cards, - " 1.05 

" 14. Chromatic Scale of Colors, - - - - " -9° 

" 15. Animals. Economical Uses, - . - - " .50 

" 16. Classification of Animals, ------ .50 

•' 17. Birds. Their Classification, - - - - " .50 

" 18. Reptiles and Fishes, - - - - - " .50 

" 19. Botanical Forms, etc., ------ .50 

" 20. Classification of Plants, - - - - - " .50 

•• 21. Economical Uses of Plants, - _ . _ " .50 

" 22. Economical Uses of Plants, continued, - - - " .50 

Price of the entire set, in Sheets, _ . - . 9.5O 

Willson and Calkins's School and Family Charts, 



MOUNTED. 


:e, $0.90 


Nos. 13 and 14, 


.90 


" 15 " 16, 


.90 


" 17 " 18, 


.90 


" 19 " 20, 


1. 10 


" 21 " 22, 



nee, it)2.oo 
" 1.25 

" I.2S 

" 1.25 

" 1.25 



Nos, I and 2, - 

" 3 '' 4, - - - 

" 5 " 6, - - - 

" 7 " 8, - - - 

" 9 " 10, - 

" II " 12, - - - "■ .90 

Price of the entire set, mounted, ------ 12.60 

Willson's Object Lessons. Adapted to the Use of the 

School and Family Charts. By Marcius Willson. This Manual 
gives the programme of a graduated series of object lessons, sketches 
of lessons as guides for the teacher, and a full explanation of 
the Charts. i2mo, cloth, price, - - - $1-25. 



82 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Whitall's Movable Planisphere 

Is a useful guide to the Student in Astronomy, and fills the place 
of the Map in the study of Geography. It is a valuable aid in 
acquiring the names of the stars, and represents the heavens at any 
minute or hour of the day. Is of convenient size for hand use, being 
fifteen inches in diameter. It is made in two styles — one in black, 
with the stars in white, as in Nature ; the other is colored, similar to a 
celestial globe, by which the constellations are distinctly sllO"wn, 
A full set of rules, with problems, are printed on the reverse of each. 
Can be sent by mail. Price, either style, - - - • $3.00 

Charts of the Metric System. 

The following^ Charts, published by the American Metric 
Bureau, Boston, Mass., will be furnished at one half the prices here 
given when the rules of the Bureau are observed : cash Oil deliv- 
ery in our store. 

Chart No. 1, — A square meter, each part engraved with the 
greatest care, drawings made of exact size from the government stand- 
ards. This is the finest illustration of the system ever printed, and is 
invaluable for schools and public places, it required eight printings, the 
measures all being given in their natural colors. These charts were 
prepared at a great expense, and are so handsomely designed and exe- 
cuted that they are considered an ornament for any room. No more 
valuable service can be done for the cause than hanging them in promi- 
nent places. They are furnished at very low prices, because of the fund 
subscribed for the purpose. The sheets unmounted, $1.50; on rollers, 
$2.00; mounted on cloth, varnished, ash, walnut, or ordinary map- 
rollers, $3.00. 

Chart No. 2. — The same accuracy and finish as the first; a 
meter wide, but only 75 centimeters long. New engravings are intro- 
duced in this chart, the iron weights, the metric coinage, the relations 
of the body to the metric units, the centigrade thermometer, etc., so 
that it supplements rather than takes the place of the No. i. It 
occupies a fifth less wall-space. Same price as Chart No. i. 

Chart No. 3. — Like the others in engraving, colors, etc., but 
reduced to a sheet 60 x 25 centimeters. It contains the half-meter 
and double-decimeter, all the weights from the mg. to the K., all the 
capacity measures from the half-liter to the centiliter, and figures illus- 
trating relations, etc. Bristol-board, 30 cents. 



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83 



Andrews' Patent Pencil Holding Noiseless Slates. 

SINGLE AND DOUBLE. 

We offer Andrews' Slates as the best School Slates 

ever put upon the market. They are an A i quality of Slate, cemented 
into solid hard wood frames, the corners mortised, tenoned, and carefully 
glued together, surrounded by strong felted or corded bands, dovetailed 
into the frames, which project beyond the surface of the frame, and 
render the Slate noiseless, if dropped. In one side of the frame is 
a deep cavity, inclosing a strong spring which receives and retains the 
pencil when not in use. 





"A" Slate, Double. "A" Slate, Single. 

The ** A " Slates have the pencil holding groove, and are 
ornamented as represented in the cut, the measures on the frames 
being in inches on one side, and fractions of a metre on the other. The 
noiseless rims are of strong cotton web. These Slates are made both 
single and double. 

Price List of "A" Slates: 



,— Each.— s 
Size. Single Double. 
5x7, $0.30 $0.60 


, — Per Dozen. — , . — Doz. in Case. -^ , — Per Case. —> 
Single. Double. Single Double Single or Double. 
$3.60 $7.20 18 9 $64.80 


6x9, 0.35 
7x11, 0.40 


0.70 
0.80 


4.20 8.40 12 6 50.40 

4.80 9.60 10 5 48.00 


8 X 12, 0.45 


0.90 


5,40 10.80 8 4 43.20 




Assorted Cases. | 


Single. Con 

I doz. 8x12, 


taining 2 


doz. 5x7; 3 doz. 6x9; 3 doz. 7x11; 

per case, $39.60. 


Double. Containing i 
i^doz. 8 X 12, 


doz. 5x7; Ji^ doz. 6x9; i}4 doz, 7x11; 

per case, $39.60. 



84 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Andrews' Noiseless School Slates. 

Half the noise in the school room is produced by 
rattling slates. This is all remedied by using the Andrews' 

Slates. They will not rattle in their frames, and the frames will 
not rattle on the desks. If the Slate is dropped, it is not broken, 
and the noise is muffled and slight. 



Andrews' 
NoiselessSlate. 





Slate, Single. 



"B" Slate, Double. 



The "B" Slates are as dm-able as the "A" Slates, but 
the frames are plain and without the pencil-holding groove. The noise- 
less rims are of corded cotton made expressly for this use, and in a 
variety of colors as bright as cotton is capable of taking. These Slates 
are made both single and double. 



Price List of "B" Slates: 



Size 


—Each — , 
Single. Double. 


, — Per Dozen. — , 
Single. Double. 


— Doz. 

Single. 


in Case.— 
Double. 


^Per Case.— 

Single or Double 


5 X 7, 
6x 9, 

7 X II, 

8 X 12, 


$0. 20 $0.40 
.25 .50 
.30 .60 

■35 -7° 


$2.40 
3.00 
3.60 
4.20 


$4.80 
6.00 
7.20 
8.40 


18 
12 
10 

8 


5 
4 


$43,20 
36.00 
36.00 

33-6o 



Assorted Cases. 

Single. Containing 2 doz. 5x7; 3 doz. 6x9; 3 doz. 7x11; 

I doz. 8 x 12, - - - - - per case, $28.80. 

Double. Containing i doz. 5x7; 1% doz. 6x9; i}i doz. 7x11; 

'/^ doz. 8x12, - - - - - per case, $28.80, 

For the use of pupils just beginning to write, the Andrews' Slates 
are sent — when ordered — ruled as in ordinary copy books. 

The Andrews' Noiseless Slates are not only convenient, but so 
durable as to be positively cheaper than the common or " D " 
Slates. 



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Andrews' Noiseless Drawing Slates. 

These Slates are intended to amuse as well as in- 
struct children, and are suitable for use in schools and families. All 
children love to draw, and are continually copying on their slates such 
simple pictures as they can find. 

Andrews' Drawing Slates supply them not only with the surface to 
draw upon, but with large numbers of simple and attractive pictures 
for copying. 

The cut represents 
one side of a slate and its 
frame, showing samples of the 
150 different copies found on 
these slate frames. 

These pictiu'es are 
not only pleasing in them- 
selves, but convey much inter- 
esting and useful information 
in regard to forms of plants, 
flowers, animals, and architec- 
tural and classic figures and 
ornaments. 

They have been accurately 
drawn by a well-known artist 
— the plants and animals from 
nature, and the classic and 
architectural forms from the 
best authorities — and carefully engraved in outline. 

They may be relied upon as correct, and in connection with a 
dictionary, and parents ready to answer or help their children find 
answers to the thousand questions which the pictures suggest, will fur- 
nish the means for many hours of useful and delightful Holiday occu- 
pation. These Slates have a Noiseless Felt Rim. 

Price Liist of the Drawing Slates: 

No. I. Elementary, .... Size, 5x7, each, 40 cts. 




I. 

" 2. Common Objects and Animals, - " 

" 3. Architectural, - . . . " 

" 4. Classic and Floral, - - - - " 

Assorted' cases, containing 3 doz. No. 

i^ doz. No. 3; i^ doz. No. 4, - - 

Andrews' Slate Drawing Book (Progressive) 
commended as the best of its kind. Price, by mail. 



5x7, " 40 '• 
6x9, - 45 " 
6x9, " 45 " 
I ; 3 doz. No. 2 ; 
per case, $45.00. 
Highly 
15 cents. 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Combination Slate Desk. 




This Slate, finished 
up in fine style, and rich- 
ly ornamented, combines 
both the Desk and Trans- 
parent. Size, 71^ X 10 j4 
in. Price, each, $1.00. 



No. 3. 



Monitor Slate Desk. 



This style con- 
sists of a lifting cover, 
with movable drawing 
copy slats. It also con- 
tains a Ruler, Eraser, 
and Pencil. This is a 
useful article, and a favor- 
ite with the children. 
Size, 71^ X 10 j4 inches. 
Price, each, 50 cents. 




No. 4. 



Portable Slate Desk. 




No. 5. 



The lo\r price at 

which this is offered, com- 
mends it to all. It is not 
only cheap, but being pat- 
terned after the more costly 
styles, is very neat and desir- 
able. Size, 7>2 X io}4 in. 
Price, each, 30 cents. 



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87 



Improved Slate Desk. 




No. 6. 



use of' them a most pleasant and instructive amusement. 
Size, 8 X iij4 in. Price, each, - 



This shape is an im- 
provement on the Moni- 
tor. The drawing copies 
used in these goods were 
designed and executed by 
one of our best artists, 
and are adapted in such 
a way as to make the 



6o cents. 



Combination Writing and Slate Desk. 




No. 8. 



This is a Writing and Slate Desk combined, containing 
Inkstand, Eraser, Ruler, and Pencils. It is a most useful article, and 
is finely gotten up in every way, as handy for the House as for the 
School. Size, 8 X 11^ in. Price, each, - - $i-25; 

Scholar's Slate Companion. 



This new style is a School Slate, with 
a Scholar's Companion fixed in the opening 
on the slate, and contains a Well for water, 
Sponge, and Pencils, and avoids the habit of 
children spitting on their fingers to clean the 
slate. A very useful article. 

Price, each, 



25 cents. m\ 




No. 9. 



88 



BAKER, PEATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Peuiisylvania **D" School Slates. 






Pr 


ice 


List. 




Size. 


Per Dozen. 




No. in Case. 


Price per Case 


5 X 7, 


$0.50. 




18 doz. 


$9.00 


6x9, 


.72. 




12 '•' 


8.64 


6i X 10, 


•75- 




12 " 


9.00 


7 X II, 


.80. 




10 " 


8.00 


8 X 12, 


1. 00. 




8 " 


8.00 


9 X 13. 


1.20. 




6 '' 


7.20 



Assoi-ted Cases. 

No. 1. Containing 1% doz. 5x7; 2 doz. 6x9; 2 doz. 6)4. x 10; 
3 doz. 7x11; 3 doz. 8 X 12. - - - Price, per Case, $9.50. 

No. il. Containing 3 doz. 5x7; 2 doz. 6x9; 2 do^i 6% x 10; 
2 doz. 7x11; j4 doz. 8x12; j^ doz. 9 X 13. - Price, per Case, $7.50. 

N. B. — These Slates have an Oval Edge and Rounded Corner 
Frame, and are warranted First-Class in every particular. 
A Liberal Discount when ordered in large quantities. 




Transparent Slates. 

Size. Per Doz. 

No. A, 4^ X 3^, $0.50 

No. B, 5|x4^, .75 

No. C, 6 X 4f, 1. 00 

No. D, 6|x5^, 1.25 

No. E, 8 X 6f, 1.75 

No. F, 9 X 7f, 2.so> 



Universal Sharpener and Eraser. 

For Lead and Slate Pencils. 

Has Lead Pencil Sharpener, Slate 
Pencil Sharpener, and Eraser for 
Slates, and Rubber for Lead Pencil 
Eraser, all in very compact form, can 
be carried in the pocket, and will 
last for years. 

Price, per dozen, - - $2.00 
Samples mailed, post-paid, on receipt of 20 cents. 




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89 



Scholar's Companions. 




No. I. 

7 in. long. Per dozen, 



No. I. Tin Scholar's Com- 
panion, oval, new style, pulls 
out from end. Contains 
sponge, ruler, slate pencil, 
lead pencil, etc. 3 in. wide, 
$3.00 



No. 2. Tin Scholar's Companion, oval style, i^ in. wide, 8^ in. 
long. Per dozen, - $2.25 

No. 3. Tin Scholar's 
Companion, hinged 
cover. Contains 
sponge, ruler, slate 
pencil, lead pencil, etc. 
Per dozen, - $3.00 i^^^ 3_ 

No. 4. Tin Pencil Case, oval, fancy, 7^ in. long, i^ in. wide. 
Per dozen, - $1.20 




No. 4. 



No. 5. Tin Pencil Case, 
new style, oval, 7 in. long, 
I ^ in. wide. Per doz., 75 cts. 



Lunch Boxes. 




Tin Lunch Box. New 
Style. Pulls out at 
end. - Per dozen, $3.00 



Moore's Folding Lunch 

Box, - Per dozen, $6.00 > 




FOLDED EJ-AT 



WHEN OPEN. 



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CATALOaUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 91 

SLATE PENCILS. 

One Hundred in a Box. 
German, No. 6, plain, in paper boxes, per thousand, - » $2.00 

u ^^ u a u a u . 2.50 

" 7, " pointed, in paper boxes, per thou- 
sand, .-.-...- 2.00 
61^ inch, plain, pointed, in wooden boxes, per thou- 
sand, .....--- 4.^0 

7 inch, plain, pointed, in wooden boxes, per thou- 
sand, _......- 2. 00 

7 inch. Gold papered, pointed, in wooden boxes, 

per thousand, ----.-- 6.00 

7 inch. Union papered. Red, White, and Blue, in 

wooden boxes, per thousand, - - - - 6.00 

No. 10, six paper-covered pencils, in wooden boxes, 

per doz. boxes, .30 

Soapstone, 6 inch, pointed, in paper boxes, per thousand, - 7.20 
" Pratt's Elite, 6 inch, six pencils painted in fancy- 

colors, in a tin box, per dozen boxes, - - .60 
A. W. Faber's, Composition, 6 inch, pointed, in wooden boxes, 

per thousand, 7.20 

THE SLATE PENCIL. HOLDER. 



The cut represents it about half size. It is made of wood, bored 
to receive a regular four-inch slate pencil — a six-inch pencil broken in 
halves answers the purpose. Its size obviates the difficulties of other 
inventions, which are too small for the regular slate pencils offered for 
sale. Its advantages are too manifest to require enumeration here. 
Every teacher knows how desirable it is to have a device which is 
large enough and long enough to prevent the irregular bits of slate 
pencils from cramping the children's fingers, and injuring them for 
writing. The pencil is held securely in place. It can be used as a 
pen holder. Price, per dozen, . ... 60 cents. 




SPONGE. LEAD PENCIL » SLATE PENCIL^ PEN AND HOLDER. BUBBER. 

Smith's Scholar's Companion, - - - - Per dozen, $3.00 



92 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




WRITING PAPERS. 

These Papers are manufactured for us exclu- 
sively, and hold their own against all competition. They are neatly 
put up in manilla outside wrappers, with the numbers and weights 
marked on each package. The inside wrappers are beautifully litho- 
graphed. The Note papers are in quarter-ream packages, and the 
Letter, Cap, Legal, Sermon, Bill, and Ledger papers in 
half-ream packages. 

TRIUMPH MILLS. 

Superfine, 

Octavo Note, 5 pounds to the ream, - - Price per ream, $1.35 

" «« 1.08 

" 1-35 

" " 1.62 

'•' " 1.62 

" " 1.90 

" <' 1.90 

" " 2.16 

" " 2.70 

" " 3-24 

" " 3-78 

" " 2.16 

" " 2.70 

" " 3-24 

" " 3-78 

" " 4-32 



Commercial Note 


,4 

5 
6 
6 




" 


' Long fold, 


<< '( 


7 




" 


' 


Packet Note, 


7 




" 


' 


Letter Paper, 


8 
10 




li 


< 


(< u 


12 




" 


' 


(( (< 


14 




a 


( 


Foolscap, 


8 
10 
12 




a 


" 


li 


14 




" 


" 


a 


16 




" 


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CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 93 

WEITEVG PAPERS. 

TKIUMPH MILLS— (Continued.) 



Legal Cap, 


lO 


Dounds 


to the ream, 


Price 


per ream, 


$2.70 


n 


12 


" 






- - " 




3-24 


il 


14 


u 






" 




3-78 


ie 


16 








" 




4-32 


Sermon Bath, 


8 








'•' 




2.16 


li u 


10 








" 




2.70 


Broad Bill Cap, 


10 








" 




2.70 


<( IC 


12 








" 




3-24 


Long Bill Cap, 


10 








" 




2.70 


ii a 


12 








" 




3-24 


Ledger Cap, 


14 








" 




3.78 



Palisade Mills Manuscript Papers. 

Extra Su;perfine. 
These Manuscript Papers are of extra quality, with mar- 
ginal perforations in each leaf, so that any number of leaves may easily 
be tied together, forming a neat pamphlet. 

Perforated Packet Note, size t^% x 9 inches, - - Price per ream, $2.40 
" Sermon Bath, " 7 x 8>^ " - - " " 2.60 

" '' Letter " 8 x 10 " - - " " 3.00 

Senate Note and Legal Pads. 

This paper is prepared to meet the demand for a cheap 
article in convenient form for the use of Authors, Lawyers, 
and in Schools and Colleges. It is heavy manilla paper, sized and cal- 
endered, so that either pencil or pen may be used, and is intended for 
use in Examinations, Compositions, Theses, etc., and in 
preparing any writing which is to be copied afterward. For Arithme- 
tical and Mathematical exercises it is invaluable, as it does not weary 
the eye as white paper will, and prevents the harsh rattle of slates and 
pencils. It is made up into PADS of two sizes. 

Commercial Note, 240 sheets in each pad, per doz. pads, $3.00 
Legal Cap, 240 " " " " " 6.00 

ENYELOPES. 

We have constantly on hand a full stock of Envelopes 
of various sizes and styles, among which are the following. The prices 
given are for one thousand Envelopes, put up in boxes each containing 
two hundred and fifty. 

No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, 

Octavo, Commercial, Letter Business 
Note Size. Note Size. Size. Size. 

Common X, White, Amber, Canary, or Buff, $ $ $1.25 $1.40 

Fine X, " " " " 1.35 1.50 1.60 1.75 

Extra XX, " " «* " 1.50 1.60 1.80 2.10 

" Fine XXX, " " " " i.8a 2.00 2.20 2.50 



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BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



The Automatic Fountain Pen. 

This is undoubtedly the 
best Fountain Pen that has 
ever been offered at a low 
price. It is simple in its con- 
struction, not liable to get out 
of order, and after being filled 
with ink, can be safely carried 
in the pocket. 
It is a pen, pen-holder, and inkstand, all in one. 




CLOSED FOR THE POCKET. 



DIRECTIONS : 

To fill the holder, with- 
draw the rubber reservoir, 
insert the point of the pen in 
an inkstand, compress the 
tube, and the ink will be 
drawn up into it as soon as 
the pressure is removed. 
Replace it for use. 
No. I, Small size, for Ladies, 
No. 2, Large size, for Gentlemen, 




price, 25 cents. 

u 25 « 



STEEL PENS. 



No. 



BAKER, PRATT & CO'S. 

Extra Fyie. 
10, School, put up in one gross boxes, each box containing 

12 smaller boxes with one doz. pens in each, per gross, $1.25 



No. 14, Bank, bronze. 
No. 22, Reservoir, bronze, 
No. 048, Falcon, " 

No. 75, Anti-corrosive, - 
No. 92, Amalgam, - 
No. 100, Keystone, white, 
No. 150, Colorado, golden. 



•75 
.70 

.75 

I. GO 
.70 
.70 

•75 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



95 



The Celebrated Spencerian Steel Pens. 

Made of the Best Material by the Best Workmen hi Etigland. 

o. Price per Gross. 

^_ Largely used in all Schools, 

College. ^^^^^ | and by the best Penmen, 

action perfect, $i.20 

'^s -p-Esc E RiAiA For ceneral writing 
^COUNTING H0U_Sl3 H . . . 

sn\ B7&c°N_EW=Y0Ri^y and Accountants, 1. 25 

z gPEiTCE RiAi^ilv The popular Busi- 

'° COMMERCIAt 3 t, 

mm^CH ,-R T aragrNE w=Y-o.R j<^ neds Pen, 1.25 




11. University. 

12. Epistolaire. 

13. Engrossing. 

14. Artistic. 

15. Queen. 

16. Official. 

17. Literary. 

18. Legal. 

19. Mercantile, 



Non corrosive Manuscript, 
For Off- Hand Work, 



1.50 



1.25 



These Pens combine Elasticity of Movement with Smoothness 
of Point not found in other Pens, and are a nearer approximation to 
the real Swan Quill than anything hitherto invented. They are used 
in all the principal Commercial Colleges in the United States, and pro- 
nounced by Accountants, Teachers, Officials, and Correspondents the 
Best Pens Manufactured. ^F Sample Cards containing all of the num- 
bers, securely inclosed, will be sent by mail, for trial, on receipt of 25 cts. 



96 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

QUILL PENS. 

In boxes of 24 Pens, full length of Quill. Price, according to quality, 

as follows : 

Italian, per box, $0.30 

Portable, " .35 

Large, - - " .50 

Office, " .60 

Congress, -------. " i.io 

PENHOLDERS. 

Accoiimioclatioil, steel tips, bronze, - - per gross, $0.60 

No. 75, Accommodation, steel tips, for ladies, " .90 

No. 2240, Plain, small, gray tips, ... <« 1.25 

No. 2440, " medium long, black or gray tips, " 1.40 

No. 2560, " large, black tips, ... " 1.7^ 

No. 2190, Swell Polished Cedar Sticks, black tips, small " 1.60 

No. 2491, " " " " " "medium," 1.90 

No. 2592, " " " " " "large, " 2.10 
No. I, Assortment, first quality, put up one gross in a box, each 
box containing one dozen each of 1 2 styles of penholders. 

Price, per box, .... .... 4,00 

No. 2, Assortment, first quality, put up one half gross in a box, 
each box containing one dozen each of 6 styles of pen- 
holders. Price, per box, -•-.... 2.00 

Nickel-Plated Pen and Pencil Cases. 

No. I. Pencil Case, Reverse, with Pencil, - - per doz, $0.96 
•■' 2. Pencil Case, Reverse, with Pencil and Rubber, " 1.20 

" 3. Pencil Case, Double Reverse, with Pen and Pencil " 1.20 

" 4. Pencil Case, Double Reverse, with Pencil, Pen, 

and Rubber, " 1^4 

" 5. Pencil Case, Double Reverse, with Pencil, Knife, 

and Rubber, ...... " 2.00 

" 6. Pen Case, Reverse, with Pencil, Pen, and Rubber, " 1.20 

" 7. Pencil Case, Double Reverse, with Pencil, Pen, 

Knife, and Rubber, - - - - - " 2.40 

" 8. Pencil Case, Double Reverse (Ladies'), with Pen- 
cil, Pen, and Rubber, ... - " 1.20 
" 9. Pen Case, Reverse, with Miraculous Pen (writing 

without Ink), " 1.20 

Samples sent by mail on receipt of price. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



97 



The Lloyd Combination Penholder. 

This snaaU article is very useful and convenient. It occu- 
pies only the space of a small pencil, and is almost indispensable for 
the desk and pocket. It is 



heavily nickel-plated, and will 
last a life-time. Twelve arti- 
cles in one. Pencil, Penholder 
and Pen, Eraser, Pen-Knife, 
Envelope Opener, Paper Cut- 
ter, Rubber and Sewing-Ma- 




These Cuts represent the " Combination " 
in its various Forms. 



chine Thread Cutter. Can be used for ripping seams, cutting off hooks 
and eyes, buttons, and for many other purposes. Price, each, 25 cents, 

Williams' Condensed Liquid Glue. 




This Ijiqilid Glue is stronger than common glue, and is al- 
ways ready for instant use. It is intended for use in mending broken 
articles of furniture, crockery, etc., and may be used wherever paste or 
mucilage are usually employed. It is put up in handsome bottles, with 
a brush for each bottle. Price, per dozen, - . - . $3.00 



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BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




This article is a fine White Paste for use in filling scrap books or 
for any purpose where paste and mucilage are usually employed. It 
■will not sour and will keep in any climate. It is put up in neat 
glass jars with glass covers, as shown in the cut, and each jar is accom- 
panied by a suitable brush. 

Gumoliiie, per jar, - 20 cents. 



EUREKA PASTE. 

Put up in same style as Gruniolilie, but in various sizes, as fol- 
lows : 

Eureka Paste, >^ pints, per jar, - - - - 
'< " pints, " .... 

" " quarts, " .... 



25 


cents 


so 


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a 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MEECHANDISE. 



99 



WKITING INK. 

The acknowledged superiority of Thaddeus Davids & 
Go's Ink, over that of all other manufacturers, so commends it to the 
public that it will, without doubt, continue to be the standard. The 




black Ink is specially adapted for school use. It flows freely, 
and is jet black when it leaves the pen. The black, blue, and violet 
inks are put up in the same style and at the same prices, as follows : 

BLACK, BLUE, OR VIOLET. 



2 oz. Monitor Stands, 

2 oz. Octagon Stands, 

4 oz. bottles, - 

6 oz. " - . - 

8 oz. 

Pint 

Quart " 

Yo, Gallon Stone Jugs, 

On Draught, - 



per doz. 



Dayids' Mucilage. 



MUCILAGE, Pints, - 
Quarts, - 
Gallon Jugs, - 



per gallon, 



per doz., 



No. I, 8 oz., with metallic cap and brush, " 



" I, 8 oz., flat " 
" 2, 3 oz., " 

"_ 3,30^; " 

Bill Stickers', 3 oz.," 
On Draught, 



per gallon, 



$o-35 
0.60 

1. 10 

1.40 

1-75 
3.00 

5.00 
10.00 
20.00 

1.25 



$5-5° 
10.00 

36.00 

4.00 

4.00 

1-75 
1.50 

^•25 
2.50 



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BAKER, PEATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Carmine and Scarlet Inks. 




I oz. draped stands, - 

No. I, I oz. RICH FLINT GLASS 

" 2, 2 OZ. " 

" I, I OZ. '' 

" 3, 2 oz. " 

" 4, 4 oz. 

" 5, 8oz. " 

Pints, " 

Quarts, " 



per doz., $1.50 
" 2.00 



CARMINE. SCARLET. 



Ground Stoppers, 



3.00 
3.00 

4-50 
7.00 

12.00 

21.00 

42.00 



$1.00 
1.50 
1.50 
2.25 

5-50 

6.00 

9.00 

18.00 



Eed Ink. 

RED WRITING INK, i oz., - 



per doz., $0.80 
1.50 



Arnold's Writing Fluid. 

We keep constantly in stock all sizes of Arnold's Writing Fluid, at 
the lowest prices : 



2 oz. Cones, stone stands, 
4 oz. Stone Bottles, 
j4 Pints, Stone Bottles, - 
Pints, " " - 

Quarts, " " 



per doz., $0.60 

" 1.20 

" 3.00 

5-40 

" 9.00 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



101 



Eaven's Ink and Mucilage. 

In Consequence of the continued demand for goods which can be 
sold at a lower price than their standard brands, Messrs. T. Davids & 
Co. manufacture Raveii's Ink and Mucilage, under trade 
mark, to supply that demand. We confidently recommend this brand 
as the very best cheap ink and mucilage made. 



RAVEN'S 
BIiACK INK. 

A deep black at first 
wtiting. 

Per doz. 

2 oz. Cones, wide 

mouth, - $0.40 
8 oz., - - 1.25 

Pints, - - 2.00 

Quarts, - - 3.25 




RAVEN'S 

Made of pure Gum Arabic, 
without adulteration. 

Per doz. 

3 OZ. Stands, with cap 

and brush, - $1.00 

Pints, - - - 4.25 
Quarts, - - 7.50 

Per Gallon, on draught, 2.00 




102 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Inkstands for Teachers' Desks. 




No. I. — Price 50 cents. 

Glass Bottle, Fancy Bronze Base and Cap. 

Ill selecting- Iiikstands for use only those should be 
chosen that are durable ; that allow every drop of ink to be used with- 
out tipping; that can be 
readily cleaned; that are 
not easily upset; that are 
attractive in appearance, and 
convenient to use. 

Our stock embraces sev- 
eral hundred different styles 
and kinds of inkstands, from 
the smallest ink-Avell for 
school-desks to the largest 
and most highly ornamented 
Inkstands and Inkstand corn- 
No. 2. — The Star Inkstand. binations for Counting-room 
Either Nickel or Gilt, price 75 cents. and Library tables. Those 




CATALOaUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



103 



we present here, we believe to be the most appropriate for general 
use, as they combine all the qualities mentioned above, and are offered 
at low prices. 



Clipper Inkstands. 



These beautiful Inkstands are deservedly popular be- 
cause of their convenience and cheapness, as well as the handsome 

designs in which they are 
made. The bottle is sup- 
ported by a pivot at each 
side, on which it revolves 
easily^ so that a single mo- 
tion of the hand is sufficient 
to open or close it. The 
mouth of the bottle is large 
enough to admit the pen 
readily, and allow every drop 




No. 3. — Bronze, $1.00. 



of ink to be used without danger of spilling it. 




No. 4. 



No. s. 



Bronze, 


$0.60. 


Bronze, 


$1.00. 


Nickel, - 


- 1-25. 


Nickel, - 


- 1.75- 


Italian, 


1.25. 


Italian, 


I-7S- 


Gold Plate, 


- 4-SO- 


Gold Plate, - 


6.00. 



104 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




No. 6. — Price 50 cents. 

Fancy Bronze Base and Rack, Glass Bottle with Fancy 
Bronze Cap. 

Each. 

No. 7. Single Bankers' Inkstand, cut glass, with Nickel Tray, $2.00 
" 8. Double " " " " " " 3.50 

Cocoawood Pocket Inkstands. 

Either Bayonet Catch or Screw Top. 

No. 9. Large Size, Each, $0.30 

" 10. Medium Size, .--.-.. « .25 

" II. Small Size, .------ " .20 

Rubber Pocket Inkstands. 

No. 12. Small Size, ------- Each, $0.30 

" 13. Medium Size, - - ... " ._:55 

" 14. Large Size, - - - ~ - - - " .40 

Desk Weights. 

Pound Desk Weights, alternate bands. Nickel and Russia, three 

colors — Green, Black, and Red, very handsome, Each, $0.50 

Pound Desk Weights, Japanned, ------ .20 

Paragon " " Nickel, " -4° 

" " " Gilt, Nickel top, - - - '' .40 



CATALOaUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 105 




Showing tlie Ink Well in the Desk. 



Explanations. — A, Cover; a, a, Pen Rack; B, Ring with shoulder, which 
confines the Glass; C, Glass; c, Slot in shoulder allowing the passage of a li;> pro- 
jecting from the glass; C, D, Pen Wiper (easily made by any pupil). 

Two Styles, and Prices to Suit All. 
Larg^e Size, having Non-Corrosive Composition Cover and Ring, 

and large removable Glass, including necessary screws, 
Price, per dozen, -...-... $3.00 

Small Size. Non-Corrosive Cover and Ring, Glass not removable, 
including necessary screws, price per dozen, - - - $2.00 

Their Points of Superiority are: 

1. Extreme simplicity and strength. There is no lock to get out 
of order. No key is required. 

2. The bearing at the rear of the pivot insures a perfect fitting 
cover and ring. This prevents evaporation of the ink and keeps out dust. 

3. The wells are large, and need filling only two or three times 
during a term. 

4. Owing to the shape and thickness of the glasses, freezing will 
not burst them. 

5. The covers turn only one way, and but a quarter of a circle ; 
they cannot be twirled or slammed, or made noisy in any way. 

6. They are not liable to be left open. 

7. The whole design is tasteful, the cover representing an inverted 
shell which serves as a pen dish. 

8. The wells are low on the desk, and not in the way of books or 
slate. 

9. They can be used in holes where other wells have been. 

10. They are the first wells invented having a pen rack attached 
to the cover. 

Adopted for exclusive use by Boards of Education in the cities of 
Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, St. Louis, etc. 



106 



BAKEE, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



The Plain Glass Ink-well, with hinged japanned cover, 
the full size of which is shown in cut No. i, is always in great demand. 

It is made of good 
glass, and is of the 
largest possible capac- 
ity that the usual bore 
of school desks will 
allow. 

No. 1. Plain 
Glass Ink-well, 
adapted to any desk, 
per dozen, 75 cents. 

Japanned Iron 
Hinged Cover, strong 
and durable. 
Per dozen, 7 5 cents. 
No. 2. Plain 
Glass Ink-well 
is like No. i, but the 
japanned iron cover 
is of a different de- 
sign, although the 
sizes are the same. 

Ink-well, per doz., 
75 cents. 

Hinged Cover, per 
doz., 75 cents. 




No. I. 




No. 2. 



Wilbur's Patent Coot Tent, or Ink Cork. 

Tlie cause of most of the complaints of thick ink arises from 
the fact that in pulling the cork it is broken by the cork-screw, or dug 
from the bottle with a knife, and the bottle left without a cork, or with 
a piece of one, to evaporate and catch the dust. With the Coot Vent 

the bottle is corked air-tight, 
and ANY inkstand can be filled 
Avith it without removing the 
cork or soiling the fingers. 
It will last for years. 
It is an ornament to 
the bottle, keeping it clean, and will preserve the ink as fresh as when 
first uncorked. It is particularly adapted to warm climates, and for 
pouring fluids from any bottle. Price, 25 cents each. 




CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



107 




The Britannia Glass-lined Ink- 
well may be had in precisely the same size as ink- 
well No. I, although the cut does not so represent 
it. 

The glass lining, or ink-well proper, is pro- 
tected on all sides by the metaUic case. 

The size is adapted to the ordinaiy bore of 
school desks. 

Price, per dozen, ----- $1.50 
Bell's Patent Ink-well Cover is complete in one piece. 
The first cut shows the upper side ; the second, a section of the lower 
side (next to the ink). The old-fashioned ink-well cover was, like this, 
in one piece ; but its lower side was flat, and the ink, when the well was 
full, would draw up to the cover, and when the pupil pushed the cover 
around to open the well, the ink besmeared over the desk. 

This cover thoroughly remedies 
that difficulty^ since it is scooped out (as 
shown in second cut), and the ridge (on 
the lower side), just as the cover is 
being pushed from the well, raises it up 
and discharges into the well whatever 
ink may have been adhering to the 
cover. This is the leading idea of the 
patent, and makes this cover a com- 
plete success. 

There being no hing'e, there is 
nothing about it that can break. A 
single screw fastens it securely to the 
desk, and the cover revolves noise- 
lessly on the screw as a pivot. The 
disag-reeable clatter, which 
most teachers have suffered from when 
the pupils open and shut the wells, can- 
not occur in the use of BelVs cover. 

It is made of cast-iron, in an orna- 
mented pattern, and is bronzed. Its 
size is adapted to all sizes of glass ink- 
wells now made. 

It is noiseless ; it is the strong- 
est and most endiu'ing*, and it 
is the cheapest — the price being, per dozen, 50 cents. 




108 


BAKER, PEATT & CO., NEW YORK. 






WKITIM BOOKS. 

With Copies. 


Per Doz. 


Ellsworth's Primary Tracing Series (3 Nos. A, B, and C), 


$1.00 


(I 


Intermediate Series (4 Nos. i, 2, 3, and 4), 


1. 00 


a 


Grammar Series (8 Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8), 


1.44 


a 


Writing Portfolios, Form i , Large, Double, - 


•75 


a 


" " 2, Small, " 


.60 


a 


"■ " " 3, Large, Single, 


•50 


Model 


Copy Books, Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, - - - 


1.44 


Payson, 


DuNTON & Scribner's Primary Tracing Books, Nos. 




h 2 


'j 3, and 4, 


1. 00 


Payson 


DuNTON & Scribner's Copy Books, 12 Nos., 


1.44 


Spencerian Copy Books, Shorter Course, Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 


1. 00 


li 


Exercise Books, Nos. A and B, - - - 


1.44 


a 


Tracing Books, Nos. i, 2, 3, and 4, - 


1. 00 


u 


Copy Books, Com. Sch. Series, Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 4}4, 5 


, 1.44 


u 


" Business Series, Nos. 6 and 7, 


1.44 


u 


" Ladies' Series, Nos. 8 and 9, 


1.44 


li 


" Exercise Series, Nos. 10, 11, 12, - 


1.44 


u 


Intermediate Book, and in Beers' Envelope, 


1.44 


u 


From Nos. i to 12, in Beers' Envelope, 


1.44 


u 


Scale of Slant and Proportion, - - - - 


•45 


u 


Key to Penmanship, plain, - - - each, 


1.25 


a 


Theory of Penmanship, paper, ..." 


•25 


u 


" " boards, - - « 
Witkoict Copies. 


.40 


No. 


Size. 


Per Doz. 


2}^, 


5/^ ^1%, 10 leaves, square quarto, printed covers, fine 






paper, 


$0.30 


3> 


7 x8^, 12 leaves, square quarto, printed covers, fine 






paper, - - - - 


.40 


4, 


"• 12 leaves, square quarto, printed covers, i2lb. 






superfine paper, . . . . 


.45 


5. 


" 12 leaves, square quarto, printed covers, 141b. 






superfine paper, .... 


•5° 


6, 


" 12 leaves, square quarto, lithographed covers, 






1 61b. superfine paper. 


•55 


8, 


" 14 leaves, square quarto, lithographed covers. 






1 61b. superfine paper. 


.65 





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WRITING BOOKS. 






Without Copies. 




No. 


Size. 


Per Doz. 


25. 


^yk X 7^, 10 leaves, square quarto, double lines, printed 






covers, fine paper, - - . . 


$0.30 


30, 


7 X 8^, 12 leaves, square quarto, double lines, printed 






covers, fine paper, - - . . 


.40 


15. 


" 12 leaves, oblong quarto, single lines, litho- 






graphed covers, extra fine paperj 


•45 




Spelling Blanks. 






For Written Spelling. 


Per Doz. 


Dinsmore's, New Elementary, 


$0.60 




" Nos. I, 2, and 3, 


1. 00 


McVicar's^ Nos. I, 2, and 3, 


I. CO 


Patterson's, Centennial, Nos. i, 2, and 3, - 


1. 00 




" Exercise Book, board covers, - - - - 


5-52 




" " " paper " - - - . 


2.88 




Composition Books. 






1^^ All but Nos. 335 and 339 are with round comers. 




No. 


Size. 


Per Doz. 


318, 


^yk X 7^, Cap quarto, 20 leaves, cloth backs, comb mar- 






ble paper sides, .... 


$1.00 


320, 


7x81^, Crown quarto, 24 leaves, cloth backs, marble 






paper sides, ----- 


1.20 


322, 


" Crown quarto, 32 leaves, morocco backs, comb 






marble paper sides. 


1.65 


324, 


" Crown quarto, 24 leaves, cloth backs, printed 






press board sides, - . - - 


1.40 


325, 


" Crown quarto, 24 leaves, morocco backs, fancy- 






paper sides, ----- 


1.60 


33°. 


" Crown quarto, 32 leaves, morocco backs, comb 






marble paper sides. 


1.90 


332, 


" Crown quarto, 36 leaves, quarter bound, cloth 






backs, comb marble paper sides. 


2.00 


334, 


" Crown quarto, 48 leaves, quarter bound, press 






boards, 


2.25 


335, 


7/^x8^, Crown quarto, 48 leaves, half bound, fancy 






paper sides, extra, . - - - 


3-75 


338, 


5 X 7^, Demy 8vo, 24 leaves, morocco backs, fancy 






paper sides, 


1-25 



110 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Composition Books. 

No. Size. Per Doz. 

339? 5 ^ 7/^' Demy 8vo, 48 leaves, morocco backs, half 

bound, fancy paper sides, - - $2.75 

340, 7^x9^, Demy quarto, 32 leaves, morocco backs, comb 

marble, fancy paper sides, - - 2.87 

Ornafjtented with fine chrom-o. 
318c, 6^x7^, Cap quarto, 20 leaves, cloth backs, marble 

paper sides, fine, - - - - 1,25 

319c, 7x81^, Crown quarto, 24 leaves, cloth backs, marble 

paper sides, fine, ... - 1.40 

327, " Crown quarto, 24 leaves, cloth backs, fancy 

paper sides, with gilt border, superfine, 1.70 

328, " Crown quarto, 23 leaves, cloth backs, fancy 

paper sides, with gilt border, superfine, 2.00 

School Records and Diaries. 

Each. 

No. I. Alphabetical Register, 204 pages, loj^ x 16 in., indexed, $3.25 
" 2. Rough Register; or, Admission Book, 48 pp., 6^ x 8^ in., .50 
" 30 Discharge Book, 40 pages, 6^ x 8^^ in., - - - .50 
" 4. Daily Attendance and Weekly Report Book, 160 pages, 

81^x14 in., 2.25 

" 5. Recitation Record; or. Class Book, 80pp., 8^ x 11 in., 1.20 
" 6. Roll Book; or, Class Attendance Book, 80 pages, 

8^ X 11^ in., 1.20 

" 8. Alphabetical List, to show the number of days and 

months each pupil was present during the year, 80 

pages, indexed, 8^^ x 13^ in., - - - - 1.50 

" 9. American School Daily, Weekly, and Quarterly Register, 

II x 161^ in., .80 

" 10. General Record of Recitation and Attendance, 

iij^xi8in., 3.50 

" II. Weekly and Term Report Cards, 4^ x8 in., per dozen, .50 
" 12. American School Class Record, 11x14 in., - - i-2o 

" 13. Teachers' Complete Pocket Record, 41^ x 7 in., - .55 

" 14. Scholars' Complete Record, 4 X 6^ in., /<?r^(92d'«, - .85 
" 15. Teachers' Model Pocket Register, - - - - -55 
" 16, School Diary, No. i (for pupils), to last six months; 5 
perfect; 3 good; i passable; o failure, 4 x 6^ \n.,jl>er 
dozen, - - • _ - - - - - - .85 



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Ill 



BOOKKEEPING BLANKS. 

Day Books, Journals j Ledgers, and Records or Ciphering Books. 

No. Size. 

850 7^ X 12^ Cap, marble paper covers, 10 sheets, per 

dozen, $2.00 

^55 ^^ ^ 13^ Crown, marble paper covers, 10 sheets, per 

dozen, ------- 2.50 

860 8^ X 131^ Crowii, marble paper covers, 20 sheets, 

cloth backs, per dozen, - - - - 4.50 

Bryant & Stratton's Blanks for Common School Book-Keep- 

ing, per set of five, - - . . .80 
" " Blanks for High School Book-Keeping, 

per set of six, ----- 2.25 

Ellsworth's Blanks to Single Entry Book- Keeping, per set of 

four, - • - .65 

" Blanks to Double Entry Book-Keeping, per set of 

five, .65 

Fulton & Eastman's Blanks, complete, per set of six, - - .75 
" '''" '■'' for merchant, per set of three, - .■^^ 

'' " " for mechanic, per set of three, - .-^"i 

CUBE ROOT BLOCKS. 

The question of 
Square and Cube 

Root can be solved in 
no other way so easily 
as by illustrating with 
blocks of this kind. 
One of them should be 
in the hands of every 
teacher who attempts 
to instruct pupils in that 
usually troublesome part 
of Arithmetic. 

No. 25. 

No. 25. Double, for carrying illustrations to three or more places, 

boxed, $1, 

" 26. Single, for carrying illustrations to two places, boxed, 
" 27. Sixty-four inch Cubes, for same purpose, boxed, - - 3, 




10 

75 



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No. 28. 



Conic Sections. 

No. 28. Dissected Cone, with Pins, showing the 
Circle, Ellipse, Parabola, and Hyper- 
bola, colored sections, - - - $2.75 
" 29. Ditto. Smaller, ----- 2.25 

Nnmeral Frames. 




No. 21. 



The Numeral Frame is not 

only a very popular but an almost in- 
dispensable aid in teaching children to 
count, and in giving them correct ideas 
of number. 

This frame is used in Primary, Inter- 
mediate, and Grammar Schools, and 
greatly assists in teaching to count, add, 
subtract, multiply, and divide, and is es- 
pecially useful in illush'ating fractions, 
the, squares and roots of numbers. 
Nicely made and varnished, having 144 colored balls, $1.25 




No. 22j^. Numeral Frame, for Table or Desk Use, 

Ivory Paper Folders. 

No. I, With Rosewood Handle, 7I/3 inches long, 



each, 



u 



u 



8 " 

8^ - " 

4, " " 9% "■ 

6, Standard, without handle, 6 inches long, 

/' / 

8, " " " 8 " 

9, " " " 9 " 



$0.35 
.40 

•45 
•55 
•15 
•25 
•30 
•35 
•45 



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Object-TeacMng Forms and Solids. 

No. 20. Thirty-six Forms in a neat wooden box, hinged, - $3.25 




Triangle. Right-angled Equilateral Triangle. Isosceles 

Triangle. Triangle. 




Parallelogram or ^ 

Rectangle. Trapezium. Rhomb. Rhomboid. 




Square. PeHtagon. Hezagon. Heptagon. Octagon. 




Cube. 



Ml 

Prisms. Cyhnder. 




Pyramid. Cone. 




Tetrahedon. 



Sphere, Hemisphere. 



Spheroid. 



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Geometrical Forms— Extra Large. 

Prepared for the Lecture or Class Room. 
No. 23. In a neat wooden, hinged box, - . . . 




pyramid and Frustum. Cone and Frustum. 

All these forms and solids, when it is practicable, have names 
printed on their face, besides being fully illustrated inside the cover of 
the box containing them. Besides those represented above, the set 
contains Oblique Cylinder, Cube, Hexagonal Pyramid, and Rhomb. 



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Geometrical Forms with Aritlimetical Solids. 

No. 24. In a neat wooden, hinged box, - 



$3.00 






^m 


me 


p^ 


^ 


1 






P^ 








\ 










' 














\ 
























Cubes. 




Parallelopipeds. 

These forms and solids convey more definite ideas of square and 
solid measure than pages of explanation or drawings could. By their 
use all possibility of error in conception and definition is avoided, since 
thev are tangible. 



1]6 



BAKER, PRATT & CO.. NEW YORK. 



AMEEICAN BEAWING MODELS. 

For Common Schools, Drawing Classes, and Schools of Art and Science. 

Designed by Walter Smith, Art INIaster ; Professoi- of Art Education in 

the City of Boston Normal Art School, and State Director of 

Art Education for the State of Massachusetts. 

The Increasing demand for Art Education, and 

its general adoption as a branch of common school instruction, has 
rendered it necessary that a supply of proper models with which to con- 
vey this instruction should be produced. Designs have been obtained 
from Mr. Walter Smith, Director of Art Education for the State of 
Massachusetts, from which we are now prepared to furnish conii>lete 
sets of models. These are made from the best materials in a 
thorough manner; and by having extensively fitted up special ma- 
chinery, the work is produced with accuracy at a much less price than 
would be possible otherwise. Each model being made to dimensions, 
these sets are equally suited to all kinds of Free-Hand, Instru- 
mental, and Perspective Drawing-. 

Set No. 1 consists of the following pieces, selected from the 
most useful and beautiful geometric figures and curved forms : 



1. sphere. Four inches diameter. 

2. Cotie. Base four inches diameter, altitude 
eight inches. 

3. Cylinder. Base four inches, altitude eight 
inches. 

4. Cotte, in Sectiotts. Base four inches, alti- 
tude eight inches. 

5. Ciibe. Side four inches. 

6. Oblojtg Block. Foiu: inches square, length 
eight inches. 

7. Triangtdar Prism. Side of base four 
inches, length of prism eight inches, base equi- 
lateral. 

8. Hexagonal Prisjti. Diagonal of base four 
inches, length of prism eight inches, base regular. 

9. Rectangular Pyramid. Side of base four 
inches, altitude eight inches. 

10. Hexag07ial Pyrannd. Diagonal of base 
four inches, altitude of pyramid eight inches. 

11. Square Block. Six inches square, two 
inches thick. 

12. Disk. Six inches diameter, two inches thick. 

13. Flight of Fojir Steps. One inch rise, one 
and one-half inches tread, width si.x inches. 

14. Double Co}ie. Altitude eight inches, di- 
ameter at junction of cones one inch, bases of cones 
four inches. 

Price, complete, with box. 



15. Cross. Six inches, made of seven-eighths 
inch stuff 

16. Triangular Frame. Equilateral Triangle 
of six inches side, seven-eighths inch stuff. 

17. Square Fj-ame. Si.x inches square, seven- 
eighths stuff. 

18. Pentagonal Frame. Outer Pentagon in- 
scribed in a circle of six inches, seven-eighths stuff. 

19. Hexagonal Frame. Side of three inches, 
seven-eighths inch stuff. 

20. Circzclar Frame. Square in section, six 
inches diameter, seven-eighths inch stuff. 

21. Circular Ring. Circular in section, six 
inches diameter. 

22. Double Cross. Six inches, seven-eighths 
inch stuff. 

23. Skcletan Cube. Six inches side, seven- 
eighths inch stuff 

24. Oblong Frame. Twelve inches long, si.x 
inches square, seven-eighths inch stuff. 

25. Square Frame a7id Ring. Si.x inches 
square, seven-eighths inch stuff. Circle inscribed. 

26. Hcxago7ial Disk. Two inches thick, six 
inches diagonal. 

27. 28, 29. Three Selected Vases. 

30. A djusiable Model Stand. Top and bottom 
eleven and one-half inches square. 

$20.00 



Set No. 2. — A box containing ten Wooden Vases, duplicated 
from the Greek originals. Price, with box, - - - $10.00 

Set No. 3. — Four Large Models for lectures and instruction to 
classes: i. Cube, fifteen inches side. 2. Cone, with base twelve inches, 
altitude eighteen inches. 3, Cylinder, base twelve inches, altitude 
eighteen inches. 4. Hexagonal Prism, base twelve inches, length 
twenty-four inches. Price, without box, $13.00; with box, $15.00 

Extra Model Stands, each, - - - - 2.50 



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118 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




The Spelling Stick is a simple device, and most useful for 
teaching spelling to Primary Classes. It consists of a piece of wood 
grooved for holding letters, and has a handle as shown in the cut. It 
is accompanied by letters on cardboard, and is an efficient instrument 
for instruction in the arrangement of letters and their combination into 
words. An entire class can be taught by it as readily as a single pupil. 

Spelling Sticks, Each, $0.25 

Fonts of Letters on cardboard for same, in box, - - - .50 

ALPHABET BLOCKS. 

PER SET, 

No. 000, Flats, Natural Wood, 12 pieces, in paper box, - $0.10 

00, " " 18 " album " - .18 

0, " " 18 " paper " - .15 

1, " " 32 " " " - .25 

2, Half Cubes, " 32 " " " - .30 

3, Flats, Enameled, 27 " wooden frame box, .60 

4, Half Cubes, Enameled, 27 pieces, in wooden box, .75 

6, '' " Natural Wood, 24 pieces in wooden 
frame box, - - - - - .45 

7, niustrated Cubes, 16 pieces in wooden box, .60 

8, « " 18 " " " .90 

9, " " 20 " " " 1.25 
10, Combination Puzzle, Building and Alphabet, 

32 pieces in wooden frame box, .^, - - .50 

12, niustrated Cubes, Natural Wood, 16 pieces, 
plaid, paper box, - - - - - .40 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 119 

PER SET. 

No. 14, Kindergarten, Spelling and Building, Natural 

wood, 16 pieces in paper box, - - - $0.20 
" 15, Kindergarten, Natural Wood, 22 pieces in wood- 
en frame box, . . . . . ,40 
80, Illustrated Cubes, 12 pieces in wooden box, .65 
80A, Cubes, Natural Wood, 12 pieces wooden frame box, .50 

A, Chromatic, 12 pieces in wooden frame box, - 1.20 

B, " 12 '' " " " - .90 

C, " 9 " " " " - .70 

Jeflfers' Panoramic Apparatus. 

For Teaching Reading by ObJect-Lesson^^Exercises, with a Manual of 

Directions. 



This is an entirely new apparatus for presenting the first lessons of 
reading in accordance with an important principle of Elementary Edu- 
cation, namely — during the first steps let the Child'' s attention be occupied 
with a single object only at a time. By means of this apparatus a pic- 
ture, a word, or a single letter may be seen at once, or an entire sentence 
can be shown at the same time. It can be quickly changed and ad- 
justed to a letter, word, or sentence by the teacher, or even by the 
youngest pupil in school. The type is so large and plain that the words 
can be easily read across a room twenty-five feet in width. The words 
and objects are illustrated by large colored pictures, which may be seen 
by fifty pupils at the same time. By means of this apparatus, and a good 
blackboard, a class of fifty children may be taught to read several hun- 
dred words that are in common use, at sight ; also sentences contain- 
ing words of two and three syllables, within two months. Its use is 
highly interesting to the pupils, by combining amusement with instruc- 
tion. Price, ..--.---- $15.00 



120 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Webb's School and Family Cards. 

For Teaching Reading. 

These dissected Cards, now rapidly taking the place of all 
other Cards for Teaching Reading to Primary Classes, have the 
following advantages : 

The words are 
printed on blocks, 
and are to be "set 
up" by the pupil, 
in the rack in the 
cover. 

There are 
about 100 
words, dupli- 
cated, with a suf- 
ficient number of 
sets of the alpha- 
bet, numerals, 
punctuation marks, 
etc., to enable the 
pupils to form any easy sentence. This one set of Cards thus includes 
all other Cards, since the sentences on all the ordinary cards in 
use may be "set up" as desired, in the rack. 

There are twenty beautiful lithog^raphs accompanying 
the Cards, in themselves affording amusement and instruction to the 
pupils, and furnishing pleasing subjects for lessons to be "set up" in 
the rack. 

In the use of the ordinary printed reading chart, Every Teacher 
Knows that the pupils almost immediately Commit the Sentences 
TO Memory. An intelligent child who has been a fortnight reading 
from such charts, will read them as well with his eyes shut as in any 
other way if he knows which sentence is called for, while if he sees the 
same words in a strange place, he may not recognize them at all. 

Webb's School and Family Cards completely remove this 
trouble, as each word is complete by Itself, and will be known Wher- 
ever Seen. 

The set COnij)rises Webb's First Lessons in Language and 
Drawing, Webb's School and Family Cards, Webb's Picture Lessons. 
All in neat walnut box, strong and durable, - - - $8.00 
Webb's Pictvire Lessons, sold separately, - - 1.25 




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121 



The Van Everen Adjustable Book Covers. 

For Colleges, Societies, Schools, Public and Private Libraries. 

Each cover is made of strong Manila paper, and in 

four parts, fitting the four corners of a bound volume. 

It is designed to supply Schools, Libraries, and book users 
generally, with a cheap, neat, and convenient book cover, 
already cut, folded, gummed, and in part sealed— thus affording, at a 
trifling cost, a complete book-cover that FITS ANYBOOK ! 

They are put up in neat paper boxes, one hundred in a box. 

Price List and Description of Sizes. 

Primary. For the smallest Sunday School Library Books, 

Size A. Is the Cover for general use. It fits i8mo, i6mo, or 

i2mo, or books varying in length from 8^ in. to 5^ in. 

The best Advertising size^ ...... 

Size B. For Law, Medical, and Svo books, Intermediate 
Geographies and College text-books; suitable for books 
10x7x2 inches or smaller, ------ 

Size C Fits the largest Geographies, 4to books 13x18 in., 

or less, - - 

These book covers have been in use for many years and are 
popular. They are the only supplementary covers that can be suc- 
cessfully and economically applied to different sizes of 
School and Sunday-School Library books. 



Per 100. 
$1.50 



2.00 



2.80 



3-75 



Perforated Library Numbers. 



The Numbers size " 25 " are print- 
ed in black, on tinted paper, for post- 
office boxes, school-desks, hat-hooks, 
library shelves, and books. Furnished 
face-gummed for glass. 

Size " 252 " for books, shelves, re- 
ports, paper patterns, and especially 
for the use of auctioneers. 

Size "5825" are printed in blue 
ink on white paper ; are used for num- 
bering Natural History specimens, 
Check Books, paging files of Letters, 
Newspapers, or any other papers, also 
Blank-books, Scrap-books, and Stamp 
collections. Any style or quantity to 
order. 

The Letters size **A" are printed 
in black, on tinted paper, and are used 
for Lecture-room Chairs, etc. The 
size ** B '* are printed in black, on 
white paper, and are used for indexing 



A- 


FBIOB. 

Perforatedt 

Like 

Postage Stampa. 

SELF-SEALINO. 


ii 

25 


Large Letters, 

Alphabet \ ctl. 

Small Letters, 

Per 100, 10 ctl. 


Runs to 1.000, 

Tinted paper, 
Per 100, 20 ctl. 


12521 

i5825i 


Bruns to 1,000, 

Tinted paper, 
Per 100, 10 etl- 


Suns to 10,000, 

White r»per, 

Per 100 10 Cti. 1 



books and for pigeon holes, etc. 



122 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



66 




0. W." SCHOOL BAGS. 

These bags are made from the best cable 
laid cord; are entirely free from starch or sizing of 
any kind, and are the only bags of domestic manu- 
facture that are not filled with glue, starch, or 
similar substances to give an appearance of strength. 

Should they become soiled through use they 
may be laundried and made as good as when new. 



8J X lo inches, 

ID X 12 " 

ii| X 14J " 

12 X 16 " 



Each, 


$0 


•25 


ii 




•30 


a 




•35 


i Ba 


gs 




iach, 


$0 


•IS 


a 




.20 


a 




•25 


11 




•30 



School Book Straps. 

A Fine Line of Straps at Low Prices. 
All 36 Inches in Length. 



No. I, 
" 2, 
" 3, 

No. 4, 



WITHOUT HANDLES. 

Split Leather, plain buckles, - - - Per doz., 
Whole '' " . . - '' 

" " patent buckles, ... " 

WITH HANDLES. 

Split Leather, whole leather handles, a very good low 

priced strap, Per doz., 

Split Leather, red leather handles. 

Whole " " " . . 

Split " fancy red round leather handles, 

Whole " " " " " 

" " " round " " 



$0.60 

.80 

1.20 



$1.00 
1. 00 
1.25 

1-50 
1.50 
2.40 
2.40 




Watson's Book Clamp. 

IMPROVED. 

Price, each, - - - 25 cents. 



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123 





Pierce's Parallel Book Clamp 

Is one of the common sense and useful articles in demand 

at the present time, when school children have many books and slates 

to carry to and from the school 

room. It has but one strap which 

encircles the whole frame, and is 

easily adjusted to fit one or more 

books, clamping and holding 

them firmly without bending or 

breaking their covers. It is made of black walnut, oiled. 

Price, - - - - 35 cents each. 

The New York Book Clamp 

Is similar to Pierce's Book Clamp, described and illustrated 

above, but instead of the strap being 

fastened by a buckle one end of it 

is riveted to the frame of the clamp, 

and the other end is held firmly, as 

tightly as it can be drawn, by a 

strong pawl let into the upper part 

of the frame. Black walnut, oiled. Price, - 30 cents each. 

Patent Inlaid Ghess, Checker, and Backgammon Boards. 

Three varieties made, and 
each Board is furnished with a 
pair of Magic Dice Boxes. We 
believe this to be the most 
beautiful and substantial Board 
in the market, and on all accounts the most desirable and economical. 

Description of Illustrations. 

1. The upper side of the board showing squares for chess^ etc. 

2. The under side, with points for backgammon. 

3. A section of the board when folded. 

4. The cylinder of a magic dice cup folded flat. 

5. The cylinder of a magic dice cup opened. 

6. The bottom of a magic dice cup. 

7. A magic dice cup complete, ready for use. 

Prices. — Style A. For Chess and Backgammon, plain margin, $5.00 
" B. " " " inlaid " 6.00 

" C. " Chess, Backgammon, and Cribbage, in- 
laid margin, - - . . . y.oo 




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THERMOMETERS. 

Everybody knows that it is necessary to regulate the tempera- 
ture of occupied rooms in order to preserve health and comfort. This 
can be done properly only by the use of a Thermometer. Those de- 
scribed below are cheap and reliable. 



TIN CASE. 



7 inch, 


Fahrenheit Scale, 


8 " 


a a 


lO " 


u a 


12 " 


a u 



FANCY CASE 

8 inch Mahogany, Fahrenheit Scale, 



Each. 

$o.3S 
.40 

•45 
•50 



Each. 
$0.60 
10 " " " " - .65 

10 " Rosewood, " " - .75 

6 " Union Frame, Ruby, Fahrenheit Scale, .65 

8 " " " " " " .8c; 

10 " " " '• " " i.oo 

10 " Window, single degree, " " i.oo 



MAGNETS. 

Every School and Teacher should be provided with one, 
furnishing as it does a means of illustrating the law of attraction, be- 
sides affording endless amusement to the children. 



Sizes and Prices. 

2 inch, with armature, 
2^ " 

3 " 
3i '' 

4 " 
4* " 

5 " 

6 " 

7 " 



Each, 


$0.15 


a 


.20 


u 


. .25 


(( 


•30 


a 


.40 


li 


•50 


li 


.65 


li 


I.OO 


a 


1-25 


a 


1.50 





CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 125 

Aids to School Discipline. 

A Substitute for School Records, Reports, and Prizes. 
It is needless to discuss the value of proper incentives 
for either children or adults. Various devices to encourage studious- 
ness, promptness, and good demeanor are employed by instructors of 
children with success usually proportionate to the ingenuity or skill of 
the teacher. To some it appears necessary 
to be constantly offering rewards to pupils, 
but the expensiveness of this method is 
often found to exceed its utility. These 
Aids consist of a series of nicely printed 
graded Merit Cards, Checks, and 
Certificates, of different numerical values, to be awarded to pupils 
according to their standing at the end of each recitation, or at the close 
of each day. 

They may be used in various ways. This is convenient : 
In the morning give each pupil a Card (five merits), representing a 
perfect day, to be forfeited for misdemeanor, or failure in recitation. 
Sing^le Merits and Half-Merits are for pupils who fail to retain 
their Cards and are yet worthy of some credit. Five Cards held 
by any pupil are exchanged for a: Check (twenty-five merits), repre- 
senting a perfect school week. Four Checks are exchanged for a 
Certificate of Merit, representing one hundred merits or a per- 
fect month. These Certificates bear the pupil's name, and are 
signed by the teacher. The number held shows the pupil's standing. 

If prizes or medals are awarded at close of session, there 
can be no mistake in determining to whom they belong ; the decision 
being made by each pupil exhibiting his Cards and Certificates, 
no idea of favoritism can arise. 

They are printed in best colors, in new and appro- 
priate designs. The Certificates are prizes which pupils will 
cherish. Single Merits and Half-Merits are printed on cardboard; Cards 
and Checks on heavy paper, and may be used many times — hence the 
system is Cheap. They are put up in sets of 500, there being 80 
Certificates, 130 Checks, 300 Cards, 50 Merits, and 
50 Half-Merits in each set. Price, per set (mailed), $1.25 
Supplied separately (by mail), single Merits, per hundred, .15 

Cards (fives), 

Half-Merits, 

Checks (twenty-fives) 

Certificates (hundreds) 



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126 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

NEW SCHOOL MOTTOES. 

20 Mottoes on 13 Cards, 7^ x 13 Inches. 

These Mottoes are intended to adorn the walls of the school- 
room, as well as aid in moral instruction. They are printed on heavy 
cardboard in brilliant and attractive colors, an assortment of which is 
placed in each set. The letters are large and distinct, and a neat orna- 
mented border encloses each card. Their cheerful appearance with the 
judicious and appropriate sentiments presented, cannot fail to please 
the eye, and be of lasting benefit to the pupil. The low price at which 
they are furnished allows of their being placed in every school-room. 
The set consists of the following Mottoes: 

I am Late. Diligence Enriches. 

Sloth Impoverishes. Time is Money. 

Know Thyself. I shall Succeed. 

Learn to Wait. I will Try. 

Strive to Please. Strive to Win. 

Dare to do Right. Speak the Truth. 

Hasten Slowly. No Lie Thrives. 

I am Early. I'll do it Well. 

Forgive others sooner than yourself. 
Where there is a will there is a way. 
Make a good rule and keep it. 
Well begun is half done. 

Price, per mail, 75 cents. 

Testimonials. 

Lithographed on Heavy While Paper, with Appropriate Designs, 
Sketches, etc. 

No. I. Size 6^ x 9^ inches, - - - per doz., $0.50 

" 2. '• 8 X 10 " - - - " .60 

" 3. " 10 X 12 " - - - " .72 

We have special facilities for executing fine lithograph 
DIPLOMAS at prices considerably below those usually charged. 
AVe shall be glad to estimate at any time when this class of work is de- 
sired. 



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127 



Medals and Badges. 





Medal No. 1 is struck in a metal which rivals silver in its 
beauty and practical utility for this purpose, since it is quite as bright, 
and just as hard, 
while it will not so 
easily tarnish as 
silver does. 

The cuts illus- 
trate it both sides, 
and in exact size. 
Price of Medal 
No. I, 20 cents. 

Medal No. 2 is shown herewith, both sides. It is somewhat 
larger than No. i, and is made of the same metal. Above the word 
" Excellence" space is left for the date, and above the word "Atten- 
tion," for 
the name of 
the pupil. 

In New 
York, the 
engraving 
costs 3 cents 
for each let- 
ter or figure. 
On receipt 

of the money we will have it done at that rate. In other localities 
jewelers can be found who do it as well. Price of Medal No. 2, 25 cents. 
These School 
Badgfes have been 
selected with great 
care, in response to a 
growing demand. 

The cuts show them 
full size. 

They afford ample 
space for any lettering 
required. 

Price, in Solid " Coin " 
Silver, - $2.50 
Price, in 14 Carat Gold, $7-50 







128 



BAKER, PEATT & CO., NEW YOEK. 



ILLUMINATED REWARD CARDS. 



We present in this Catalogue fac-simile illustrations of 
some of the new and beantifiil Reward Cards described in the 
following list. They are all of the latest and most appropriate designs, 
each pack containing an assortment of several styles. Sent by mail on 
receipt of price. 



SERIES. 

No. 1 12 FLORAL AND FRUIT DESIGNS, 

" 3 6 FLORAL DESIGNS, .... 12 

" 3.— 6 FLORAL DESIGNS, .... 12 

" 4 6 FLORAL DESIGNS, .... 12 

" 6 6 FLORAL DESIGNS, .... 12 

" 6 6 DESIGNS, BEAUTIFUL PLUMAGE REPRO- 
DUCTIONS, 12 

" 7 6 FLORAL DESIGNS, .... 12 

" 9.— 12 DESIGNS, FRUIT, FLORAL, AND BIRD, - 12 

" 11.— 12 FLORAL DESIGNS, - - - . 12 

" 12 6 FLORAL DESIGNS, .... 12 

" 13 6 DESIGNS, 12 

" 14 12 FLORAL DESIGNS, .... 12 

" 31 6 DESIGNS, BOOK MARKS, FERN, FLORAL, 

AND INSECT DESIGNS, ... 12 

" 33.— 4 DESIGNS, EMBOSSED, .... 8 
" 33.— 6 DESIGNS, LARGE BOOK MARKS, CEREAL, 

FLORAL, AND INSECT DESIGNS, - - 6 

" 34.— 6 DESIGNS, EGYPTIAN AND ANTIQUE, - 12 

" 25 6 FLORAL DESIGNS, WITH PORTRAITS OF 

EMINENT AMERICAN POETS, AND 

CAREFULLY SELECTED QUOTATIONS, 6 

" 36 6 BIRD DESIGNS, 12 

" 37.— 14 JUVENILE DESIGNS, CAMEO PRINTING, 84 
" 38.— 16 DESIGNS. SMALL FLORAL AND BIRD RE- 
WARDS, 96 

" 39.— 8 JUVENILE DESIGNS, CAMEO PRINTING, 24 
" 30 6 DESIGNS, FLORAL AND FEATHER, BEAU- 
TIFULLY EMBOSSED, .... 6 

" 31 12 DESIGNS, FANS, - - - . . 12 

" 32 — 6 DESIGNS, FLORAL BOOK MARKS, Scripture Texts, 6 
" 33 — 6 DESIGNS, FLORAL BOOK MARKS, " " 6 

" 34 — 12 DESIGNS, FLORAL CARDS, " " 12 

" 35 — 12 DESIGNS, FLORAL CROSSES, " " 12 

" 36 — 12 DESIGNS, SMALL BOOK MARKS, " " 12 

" 37.— 6 DESIGNS, LANDSCAPES, . - - 12 

" 38 — 6 DESIGNS, JUVENILES, - - - ~ - 12 

" 39 — 4 DESIGNS, SEASONS, .... 8 

" 40.— 4 DESIGNS, JUVENILES, - - - - 8 

" 41 — 8 DESIGNS, SEPIAS, - - - - 8 

" 42.— 12 DESIGNS, iESOP'S FABLES, - - - 12 

" 43 — 6 DESIGNS, LITTLE ONES AT HOME, - 12 

" 44 — 8 JUVENILE DESIGNS, CAMEO PRINTING, 48 

" 45 — 12 DESIGNS, PUG DOGS, .... 12 

" 47 — 12 DESIGNS, WILD FOWL, Etc., ... 12 

" 48.- 6 JUVENILE DESIGNS, Scripture Texts, - 12 



PER 

12 Cards to the Pack, 



PACK. 

$0.25 
•25 
.20 
.30 
.30 

•30 
■25 
.30 
.25 
•25 
•IS 



.30 
■30 
• 15 

•25 
.25 

•30 
.30 
.60 
.60 
.40 
•30 
•15 
•25 
■25 
.20 
.40 
.30 
.25 
.20 
.40 
•25 

•25 
•2S 



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129 



Book Rest for Office Desks and Library Tallies. 

This rest consists of six orna- 
mentally carved and elegantly fin- 
ished pieces of hard wood, with a 
bottom piece, to which are screwed 
two steel movable clasps. It is 
self-svipporting', and occu- 
pies, when in use, the space of 
8 X 13 inches. When not in use 
pen, X nc es. .^ folds into something like a ruler, 

3x19 inches, and may be laid in a common desk drawer. It is large 
enough for any octavo or quarto volume, and sufficiently tasteful and 
ornamental for any surroundings. Lawyers, Students, Copyists, and 
all Readers using two books at once mtisf use it, and other readers 
ought to use it for their own Comfort, Convenience, and Health. 

It holds the book constantly at the proper angle, thus resting and 





Folded, 3x19 inchfs. 

strengthening the eye. It prevents the reader from assuming a crouch- 
ing and unhealthful posture while reading, and it relieves the hand and 
arm from the weight of a heavy book, thus adding greatly to the com- 
fort of the reader. Price, _..-.- $1.00. 



Wilieft's Ready Reference Card-Holder. 

The handiest Card -Holder 

made; it occupies little space, and can be hung 
on the side of a desk, or in any other con- 
venient place. 



Size, 9^ inches long, per doz.. 
By mail, each, . . . 



$3.00 
•30 




130 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




READING GLASSES. 

For Examining Maps, Engravings, Phatographs, etc. 

EACH. 

No. 130, German Silver Frame, black handle, 2 inches diameter, $1.00 



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Gilt Frame, Ivory handle, 


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2.00 

3.00 
5.00 
2.25 

3-75 
5-5° 
8.50 



Pocket Magnifying* Glasses. 




^o, Of. 
No. 50, one ^-inch lens, 
" 51, two ^-inch lenses, 
" 56, one I -inch lens, 
" 57, two 1-inch lenses, 



These Glasses are often very 
useful to Teachers, while to students 
of Botany, Geology, or any other of 
the Natural Sciences, . they are a 
necessity. They are set in hard rub- 
ber rims, which fold mto a case of 
the same material, thus making them 
convenient and safe to carry in the 
pocket. They may be had in a variety 
of styles, with one or more lenses, as 
shown in the cuts. 

Each, $0.30 

" .50 

" .50 

..... - .75 



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131 




No. 62, one i i^-inch lens, - 

" 63, two ii^-inch lenses, 

" 68, one 1 5^ -inch lens, - 

" 69, two 1 1/^ -inch lenses, 

" 74, one i^-inch lens, - 

" 75) two i^-inch lenses, 

" 78, one 2-inch lens, 

" 79, two 2-inch lenses, - 



No. 62. 



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•75 




' 1.25 




.90 




: 1.60 


" 1.25 




' 2.00 





No. 127, Tripod Magnifier, brass 
screw adjustment for focus, 
each, - - - $0.75 

" 143, folds flat, one lens, each, .50 

'* 144^, one lens, strong focus, 

each, - - - .40 



No. 143. 




No. 144^. 



132 



BAKER, PRATT & CO.. NEW YORK. 



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No. no, one i-inch lens. 


- 


- 


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- Each, $0.50 


" III, two i-inch lenses, - 


- 


- 


- 


•75 


" 112, three i-inch lenses, 


- 


- 


- 


" 1. 00 



The Youth's Microscope. 

This is a neatly fliiisliecl instrument, designed for the 
use of young persons who wish to pursue their investigations beyond the 
powers yielded by a simple Microscope. The low price at which it is 
sold, and its compact form, make it very desirable. The lenses are ac- 
curately ground, and afford a power sufficient to render distinctly visible 
a great number of minute objects, animal, vegetable and mineral. 

The Youth's Microscope is substan- 
tially made, with a vertical brass body, 6 inches 
high. One eye piece, one objective, giving a power 
of 40 diameters (i;5oo areas). Mirror beneath the 
stage for the illumination of transparent objects. 

In French polished case, with 2 Glass Slips, i Pre- 
pared Object, and i pair Brass Forceps, - $2.50. 
Every Microscopist should have a standard recent 
book on the Microscope. 

Common Objects of the Microscope. By Rev. 
J. G. Wood. Upward of 400 illustrations, on 12 col- 
ored plates, by Tuffen West. 132 pages, - $0.50. 
Practical Hints on the Selection and Use 
OF THE Microscope. ByDr. J. Phin. 131 pp., $0.75. 
The Preparation and Mounting of ^Iicroscop- 
ic Objects. By Thomas Davies. 214 pages. $1.25. 
Half Hours with the Microscope. Being a 
Popular Guide to the use of the Microscope as a 
means of Amusement and Instruction. By Edwin 
Lankester, M.D. Illustrated from Nature, by Tuffen 
West. A new edition with chapter on the Polariscope, by F. Kitton. 130 
pages, - - - . - - - $1.50. 

Evenings at the Microscope. By P. H. Gosse, F.R.S. 477 
pages, with numerous illustrations, ... $1.50. 




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133 



Prices. 

With 2 crown glass 
objectives yielding wide 
range of powers from 20 
to 100 diameters (400 to 
10,000 areas), i plain 
glass slide, i glass slide 
with concavity for hold- 
ing liquids, i prepared 
object — in box, $5.00. 

Same as above, with 
addition of 48 prepared 
objects, - $10.00. 

Printed instructions 
furnished with each in- 
strument. 



The Household Microscope 

stands seven inches high when inclined as 
shown in the engraving, and ten inches when the 
draw tube is extended. 

The base is of iron, bronzed, with hinged 
joint. The body is of brass, finely finished, with 
extension draw tube. 

The stage is large and steady, with 
brass springs for holding the object. Be- 
nt, th the stage is a mirror with univer- 
1 motion for illumination of transpa- 
rent objects. 

The Household Microscope 

is a miniature model of the most 

approved and modern 

pattern. The animalcules 
commonly present in pond 
water, the Pollen of Flow- 
ers, etc., can be well ob- 
served and studied 
with it. 




134 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

DRAWIN G MAT ERIALS. 

Frencli Instruments. 

Of Brass and German Silver in Cases. 
No. Each. 

339. Mahogany Case, containing 5 pieces, Brass : i Pair Compasses, 

4^ inch, with Pen and Pencil Points, i Key, - $0.65 

340. Mahogany Case, containing 6 pieces, Brass : i Pair Compasses, 

4X inch, with Pen and Pencil Points, i Crayonholder, i Key, 

I Rule, ------- .75 

341. Mahogany Case, containing 8 pieces, Brass: i Pair Compasses, 

4X inch, with Pen, Pencil Points, and Lengthening Bar, i 
Crayonholder, i Protractor, i Key, i Rule, - - - .go 

342. Mahogany Case, containing 9 pieces. Brass : i Pair Compasses, 

4X inch, with Pen, Pencil Points, and Lengthening Bar, i 
Drawing Pen, i Crayonholder, i Protractor, i Key, i Rule, 1,05 

345. Mahogany Case, containing 10 pieces. Brass : i Pair Compasses, 

4^ inch, with Pen, Pencil Points, and Lengthening Bar, i Pair 
Dividers, 3X inch, i Drawing Pen, i Protractor, i Crayon- 
holder, I Key, 1 Rule, - - - - -1.15 

346. Mahogany Case, the same as No. 45 : Compasses i inch longer, 1,45 




No. 347. 

347. Mahogany Case, containing 1 2 pieces, Brass : i Pair Compasses, 
4J^ inch, with Pen, Pencil Points, and Lengthening Bar, I 
Pair Dividers, 3j4 inch, i Bow Pen with Pencil Point, i 
Drawing Pen, i Protractor, i Key, i Rule, - - - 1.60 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



135 



No. Each. 

348. Mahogany Case, containing 12 pieces, Brass, the same as No. 

47, but Compasses $}i and 4X inches long, - - - $2.00 

349. Rosewood Case, containing 12 pieces, Brass : the same as No. 48, 2.40 

350. Rosewood Case, with Lock and Tray, containing 12 pieces, 

Brass: the same as No. 48, - - - - - 2.85 

351. Rosewood Case, with Lock and Tray, containing 12 pieces, Ger- 

man Silver : the same as No. 48, - - - - 5.00 

352. Rosewood Case, with Lock and Tray, containing 12 pieces. 

Brass: the same as No. 50, but Compasses 6}i and c^^ inches 
long, -------- 3.30 




No. 355. 

355. Rosewood Case, with Lock and Tray, containing 16 pieces, 

Brass : i Pair Compasses, 6% inch, with Pen, Pencil Points, 
and Lengthening ar, i Pair Compasses, 3)4 inch, with Pen 
and Pencil Points, i Pair Dividers, Ar% inch, i Bow Pen with 
Pencil Points, i Drawing Pen, 2 Protractors, i Key, i Rule, 

356. Rosewood Case, with Lock and Tray, containing 16 pieces. 

Brass: the same as No. 55; the Compasses with Needle- 
points, - _ - - - 

357. Rosewood Case, with Lock and Tray, containing 16 pieces, 

German Silver : the same as No. 55, - - - - 

358. Rosewood Case, with Lock and Tray, containing 16 pieces, Ger- 

man Silver: the same as No. 57, the Compasses with Needle- 
points, - - - - -- 



3-70 



4.50 



7.50 



8.00 



136 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Prang's Patent American Compasses. 

For School and Office Work. 

(PATENTED AUGUST 22, 1876.) 

Ill ofFeriilg" Prang's Patent American Compasses to the public, 
we beg to call attention to the following features, which make them the 
clieapest and most practicable instruments in the market for 

school and office work : 

First. — They are strongly made of German silver, which obviates 
the serious objection made to the frequent handling, especially by 
pupils, of brass instruments, on account of the poisonous oxidation 
which attaches to the fingers. 

Second. — There are no screws in them to drop out and get lost. 
Third. — There are no extra pieces to be attached or detached in 
changing from compass-point to pencil or pen-point. 

Fourth. — When closed, the compass, pencil, and pen points are 
protected, and the instrument can be carried in the pocket as conveni- 
ently as a lead-pencil. 

Fifth. — They are the cheapest really good instruments in the 
market, as they retail for only 25 and 35 cents respectively. 

These compasses have proved satisfactory wherever used, and not 
a single imperfect instrument has been returned. 

Tliey are now used very largely in public 
schools. 

Two numbers of these compasses have been made — the first, the 
A compasses, containing compass, pen and pencil points, are intended 
for use in High Schools, Drawing Classes, and for common office work, 
Avhere a pen-point is sometimes desirable; the second, the B compasses, 
comprising compass and pencil points only, are intended for use in the 
lower classes of public schools, where only a compass and pencil-point 
are necessary. 

Tlie following" cuts show the instruments in their different 
aspects : 

INSTRUMENT CLOSED. 




This represents the instrument (A or B) closed. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



137 



A" COMPASSES. 




This shows the A compasses opened, with the compass-point pro- 
jected beyond the pen-point. 



This shows the combination leg of the A compasses ; a, pen-point ; 
b, compass-point drawn in; c, pencil-point; </, projection with which to 
slide pencil-point and compass-point in and out. 



"B" COMPASSES. 




This shows the B compasses opened, with the compass-point in 
place for use. 




This shows the B compasses opened, with the combination leg 
reversed, and pencil-point in place for use; a, projection with which to 
slide the pencil-point in and out. 



These instruments are put up in wooden boxes, containing 
one hundred each, or are sewed on cards of one dozen each, put up in 
paper boxes of one gross. 



Price, A compasses, 
B compasses, 



35 cents each. 
25 



Special grades of pencils, about two inches long, and made 
expressly by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. to fit the compasses, can 
be furnished at $i.co per gross. 



188 



BAKER, PRATT & CO.. NEW YORK. 



No. 

380-1. 

380-2. 

380-3. 

381-2. 

386. 

387. 
387;^. 

-.88, 



Freiicli Instruments. 

Separate. 

Brass, Plain Dividers, 4.54 inch, . _ _ - 
'' ' " •" ' 5^ " 

" " " 6'.! " - 

German Silver, Plain Dividers, ^Yz inch, . _ - 

Brass, Proportional Dividers, (i% inch, in Case, 

a a a g n a 

German Silver, Proportional Dividers, 61^ inch, in Case, 
" ". " "■ eVz " divided for 

Lines, Circles, Solides, and Planes, in Case, 
" ^' Proportional Dividers, 7 inch, with rack move- 

ment, in Case, - - - - - 



Each. 

$0.30 

•35 

.40 

.70 

2.00 

5.00 

3.00 

4.50 

6.00 



No. 

394. Drawing Pen, Ebony Handle, 

395- 

269. ' 

270. ' 

271. ' 

272. ' 
273- 
274. 

275. " 5K" " " - - 

276. Hatching Pen, 5 inch, with 3 Pairs of Blades, - 



White Bone Handle, with Pin, 

4 inch, - - - 

5 " - 

5 " common joint, 
4 '•' fine joint, 

5K" 

4 " " and pin, 



Each. 

$0.20 

•30 

•55 

.70 

.80 

.85 

1. 00 

1. 00 

1.25 

1-75 



Parallel Rulers. 




No. 00. 

No. 

00. Ivory Parallel Rule, German Silrer Bars, 6 inch, 

01. Ebony '■' Brass Bars, 

No. 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 

6 9 12 15 18 . 24 inch, 

Each $0.25 50 75 1. 00 1.25 2.00 



Each. 
- $1 50 



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139 



T Squares. 



763. Hard wood, well seasoned, square fixed head : 

15 18 21 24 30 ^6 42 inch. 

Each, $0.35 .40 .45 .50 .60 .70 .80 
772. Hard wood, well seasoned, shiting head, swivel : 

15 18 21 24 30 36 42 inch. 

Each, $0.80 .90 i.oo 1. 10 1.20 1.35 1.50 



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No. 78 r. 



781. Maple Blade, black walnut head, fixed: 
18 21 24 30 36 

Each, $0.65 .75 .85 1.00 1. 10 



42 
1.25 



1.40 



54 inch. 
1.60 




O 



No. 790. 



790. Maple Blade, black walnut head, shifting swivel : 

18 21 24 30 36 42 48 54 inch. 

Each, $1.00 1. 15 1.25 1.40 1.50 1.60 1.75 2.00 

Triangular Boxwood Scales. 




No. 531. 

No. Each. 

530. Triangular Boxwood Scale, div. /^, y\, ^, }{> H> /4> %, i, iKj 

3 inch to the foot, ^V inch, 6 inch, - - - -$1.50 

531. 12 inch, _-_...- 2.00 
53i>^. iSinch, i^, X;^> /^5 ^j ij iK, 2, 3, 4inch tothefoot, yi-g inch, 3.00 

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5.00 



140 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Protractors. 




No. 426. 

No. 

425. Semicircular Horn Protractor, 4.X inch 1°, 

426. " " " sx " yz°, 

427. " " " 6X " %% 



A^7%- 



y-% 



Ivory and Boxwood Scales. 



482. Ivory Plotting Scale, 6 inch, 

483. Boxwood Plotting Scale, 6 inch, 



Each. 
30.25 

•30 
.40 
.60 



Each. 



Triangles. 





No. 824. 



No. 828. 



No. 
820. 

822. 

824. 
825. 
826. 
827. 
828. 
829. 
830. 
831. 



Pearvvood Triangles, plain, 30 x 60° : 7 inch, 

" 45°: 5)^ inch, 

Pearwood or Cherry Triangles, framed, 30 x 60° : 7 inch, 

II " 
14 " 
45° : SH inch, 
7; 
9 
II 



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Each. 
$0.15 
.20 

•15 
.20 
.20 
.25 

•30 
.40 
.20 
,25 

•30 
.40 



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141 



School and Office Rulers. 

These Rulers are made of sound, hard wood, polished, spec- 
ially for school and office use. They are accurately marked in eighth- 
inches, quarter-inches, half-inches, and inches, stamped in black. One 
edge is beveled and the other grooved to prevent any overflow of ink 
from soiling the paper while ruling. 

1 2 -inch. Wide, School, 50 in a box, 
12-inch, Narrow, ... - 
X 2-inch, Wide, ----- 
15-inch, "....- 

18-inch,. " 

21-inch, "-.-.- 

24-inch, '•..... 

1 2 -inch, 

1 5-inch, 

18-inch, 

2 1 -inch, 

24-inch, 



Brass edge, 



Price, per 100, 


$3.00 


" per dozen, 


.40 


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•75 


ii li 


.2,?, 


ic 11 


1.05 


11 'I 


1.25 


li a 


1-50 


a a 


1.50 


u u 


1.88 


it li 


2.35 


(C a 


2.90 


a a 


3.60 



Crayon Holders. 



No. 1440. 

1440. Crayon Holder, Brass, 5 inch and 6 inch, 



1440^ 

1441 

1442 

1443 
1444 

1445 
1446 



4i 



Each, $0.08 
.06 



German Silver, 5 inch, 
Brass, Ebony Handle, 5 inch, 

" " fine, 5 inch, - 

German Silver, Ebony Handle, fine, 5 in.. 
Brass, double, wooden centre, 7 inch, 
Germ. Silver, double, wooden centre, 7 in.. 



.25 
.10 

•15 
.25 

.25 

.40 



stumps. 




No. 1439. 

1438. Paper Stumps, assorted, 

1439. Chamois Leather Stumps, assorted, 
i439i-' Cork Stumps, assorted. 



per doz., $0.50 
" 1.50 

'' [.50 



142 BAKER, PEATT & CO.. NEW YORK. 



Dixon's American Graphite Office and Artist's Pencils, 




PATENT DOZEN PACKAGE. 

Office Pencils. 

In Six Grades, in both Round and Hexagon Shapes. 

S, Soft. A very soft, black, smooth pencil. 

S M, Soft Medium. Popular for general use. The nearest to 
what is known as " No. 2," but smoother and pleasanter to use. 

31, Medium. A very fine pencil, a little harder than what is 
known as " No. 2," more like what is known as " No. 3," but very 
smooth, and will wear longer than any pencil made for general use. 

H, Hard. A harder pencil, smooth and fine. 

V H, Very Hard. Still harder, for fine work. 

V V H, Very, Very Hard. Still harder, for finest work. 

All the above, Hexagon Shape, - - per dozen, $0.75 
Roimd " - " 50 

No. 200, Paper Case, containing 4 Round Ofiice Pencils, as- 
sorted, per case, - - - - - - - - .25 

No. 201^ Paper Case, containing 4 Hexagon Office Pencils, 

assorted, per case, _.--.-- .3^ 

United States Patent Office, 

Washingioti, D. C, March 5, 1874. 

" T am using the best imported Siberian pencils, and paying eighteen dollars 
($18) per gross for them. I have, for the production of the drawings used in my 
dictionary, four draughtsmen who cannot be beaten in the United States for fine 
pencil work. Your pencil, V V H, is quite up to the quality of the $18 imported; 
it can hardly be better ; but my best draughtsman says it is perhaps a little better. 
We shall hereafter use none but your V V H, and I have experimented carefully. I 
send some of the drawings from which my cuts are made, to show you that I need 
the Best High-Grade Pencils, at any price. 

"The package containing H, V H, and V V H pencils came safely to hand, and 
some have been given to other bureaus in the Department, with everyAvhere a favor- 
able verdict. I am yours truly, Edward H. Knight, A.M., 
Examiner-in-charge of Classifications and Official Pubhcations, U. S. Patent Office. 
Author of ' Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary.' " 



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143 



A l>erfect pencil should be smooth, soft, black, uniform, and 
reliable, hold its point in wear, and be pleasant to use. The mark 
should be clear and perfect, but disappear entirely under the rub- 
ber, leaving the paper clean. All these qualities have been obtained in 
these pencils, beyond anything heretofore produced. 



Dixon's Artist Case. 




No. 206. 

Made of Aromatic Cedar, contains six of Dixon's Hexagon 
American Graphite Artist Pencils, one each SM, M, MH, MB, H,VH. 
The case is elegantly polished. 



Dixon's Artist's Pencils. 

W S, Very, Very Soft. M, - - Medium. 

V S, - Very Soft. M H, Medium Hard. 

S, - - - Soft. H, - - - Hard. 

S M, Soft Medium. V H, - - Very Hard. 

M B, Medium Black. V V H, Very, Very Hard. 

In Fine Red Paper Cases, complete for Skekhi?ig or Drawing. 

jq-Q Per Case. 

202, Paper Case, containing 4 Hexagon Artist's Pencils, ass'ted, $0.50 

203, " " 6 " " '' -75 

204, " " 8 " " " i.oo 

/;/ Real Aromatic Cedar Cases, complete for Sketching or Drawing. 

No. Per Case. 

205, Cedar Case, containing 4 Hexagon Artist's Pencils, ass'ted, $0.75 

206, '' " 6 '' 

u a 8 " a " 



207, 



1.50 



144 BAKEE, PEATT & CO., NEW YOEK. 



Lead Pencils, 

Dixon's Plain Cedar Pencils, 





Polished " 






'' Black 






"Red 






Best Office 






u 




Faber's 


a 




u 


a 





Round, 
Hexagon, 
Round, 
Hexagon^ 

PENCILS IN BOXES. 

Per Case. 

No. 202, Paper Case, containing 4 Dixon's Hexagon Artist's 



per gross, 


$1.20 


u 


1.32 


u 


1.50 


u 


1.60 


per doz., 


•50 


a 


•75 


a 


.70 


a 


.90 





jrciiciis, 
203, 


ass 

u 


uneu, 






6 


u u 






^50.50 
•75 




204, 


a 








8 


u u 






1. 00 




205, Cedai 


Case, 






4 


a u 






•75 




206, 


u 








6 


U Ll 






1-15 




207, 


a 








8 


u u 






1.50 


5 


A. W. Faber's 


English Pencils, 


n wooden case, 


- 


- 


•50 


7 


u 




a 




u 




u u 


- 


. 


.60 


10 


u 




u 




li 




U (.(. 


- 


- 


•75 


5 


u 




u 




u 


with Knife and Rubber, 


in 


















wooden case. 


- 


. 


1. 00 


5 


li 




Siberian Pencils, 


in wooden case, 


. 


- 


1. 00 


7 


u 




u 




u 




u u 


- 


- 


1.50 


lO 


u 




u 




a 




il il 


- 


. 


2.00 


5 


il 




u 




u 




with Knife and Rubber, 


in 





wooden case, - - 1.50 

CMnese or Indian Ink. 

This Ink is of a beautiful brown or bluish hue, best adapted for shading, 

and indispensable to Artists for its brilliancy of shade; it is also preferable 
to any other ink for tracing purposes. 

No. Per Cake. 

4B. Gilt, round, with Lion Head, - . > _ $0.20 

5B. Black, oval, " " - ' - - - .15 

7. India Ink, oblong, black, - - - - - .10 

A. Oval, black, - - - - - - . .25 

B. " " with Lion Head, - - - - .50 

C. Round, gilt, - - - - - . - .30 

D. Oblong, "-----.. .40 

E. ''''----.- . .60 

F. Square, black, gilt figures, ----- .50 



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145 




Pencil Sharpener. 

I Dozen in Box, price per dozen, $1.25 
Sample, by mail, 12 cents. 



Stationer's Velvet Rubber. 

This Patent Velvet Rubber is prepared from the best of 
stock, and is made by a patent process, which gives it a soft vel- 
vet finish, rendering it ready for use without any further preparation. 





FLAT. OBLONG. 

We have no hesitation in recommending it to Accountants, Artists, 
Draughtsmen and others, as possessing superior quahties both in mate- 
rial and finish, knowing that when once tried it will prove all we claim 
for it. 

It is soft and i)liable, will not grow hard nor polish on the 
surface, and will readily erase and clean the Jjaper at all times. 

Put up in boxes of one pound each, price per pound, - $1.25 

Sizes, oblong, 12, 20, 30, 40 or 60 to the pound. 

Sizes, flat, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 60 or 80 to the pound. 

Patent Wedge Shape Rubber Heads for Pencils. 

Two Sizes. — Large, $1.65 per gross; Small, $1.50 per gross. 

The Wedge Shape Rubber is a recent de- 
vice — patented. With the sharp, chisel shape 
of this rubber the finest lines can be erased. 
The rubber is of high quality, and a great convenience for Artists, being 
always ready. 

No. 363 is the Patented 
Nickel-Finished Pencil-Point 
No. 3Q3. Protector and Rubber Eraser. 

Per dozen, 50 cents ; sample, by mail, 5 cents. 

No. 366 is same as No. 
363, Heavily Nickel - Plated, 

with Perpetual Calendar at- ^^^ 3gg_ 

tachment. Per dozen, 75 cents; sample, by mail, 8 cents. 






146 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



The Patent Adjustable Stand. 

The Improved Adjustable Stand is substantial, orna- 
mental, convenient and cheap, and its tasteful appearance makes it 
suitable for the office, library or sitting-room. It can be fixed at any- 
required height, so one can use it either sitting or standing; and by 

turning back the 
Eici2 /^m W'^^ i-^ screw at the right, 

it is allowed to ro- 
tate, bringing either 
side in front. The 
shelf or ledge for 
instruments is at- 
tached to the back 
side of the table, 
so that it is always 
level, whatever in- 
clination is given 
to the desk. This 
is very convenient 
for the water-cups, 
ink -stands, etc. 
Fig. 2 shows the 
table fixed at a 
slight inclination, 
the dotted lines 
showing it horizon- 
tal at A or vertical 
at B. When the 
table is nearly ver- 
z:j\ tical, the whole oc- 
"^ cupies but little 
: "-• space, and forms 
a perfect easel. 
When used for this 
purpose, a neat 
For Schools, Drawing-Classes, Artists, Architects, attachment, not 
Draiightsmeti, Engineers and Artisans Generally, shown in the cut, 

is furnished for 
holding the picture, and the adjustments are so simple that a mere 
touch is sufticient to effect an entire change in the light which falls 
upon the work. 




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147 



Under the instrument shelf are provided two drawers for working 
materials. The table and drawers are made of black walnut or other 
appropriate wood, nicely finished. 

The tripod, hollow standard and sliding spindle are of cast iron, 
neatly painted and bronzed. The working parts are well finished and 
are very easily operated. The Stand complete weighs 55 pounds, and 
is sufficiently firm to support a drawing-board 44 inches square without 
inconvenience. In the lowest position the table is 30 inches high,' and 
may be elevated to 44 inches. 

Price List, 

No. I. Suitable for School-rooms, Shops, etc., plain soft wood 

top, as shown in the figure, 22 x 24 inches, - $8.00 

" 2. Same as No. i, with Instrument Shelf, 7x9 inches, g.oo 

" 3. Black Walnut Top, 22 x 26 inches; Instrument Shelf, 

7 X 26, ...... 10.00 

'''• 4. Suitable for Counting-rooms, Architect's Offices, etc., 
black walnut top, 22 x 26 inches; Instrument Shelf, 
7x26 inches, two Instrument Drawers, mounted 
on castors, bronze paint, - - . - 12.00 

" 5. Same as No. 4, selected walnut top, polished, castings 

bronzed and ornamented ; suitable for home use, - 15.00 

" 6. Engraving Stand, - - - - - 20.00 



Bristol Board. 

REYNOLDS'. 

Cap, 12^ ^ ^5/4^ inches, 2 Sheet, 

3 " - • 

4 " - ■ 
Demy, 14^ x 181^ inches, 2 " - • 



Medium, 161^ x 21 inches, 2 " 



Per doz., $0.65 
" .90 

1.20 

•95 
1.40 
1.90 
1.25 
1.90 
2.50 



Cap, 

Demy, 

Medium, 



German Drawing" Paper. 



Size. Per Quire. 

14x17, $0.30 

15x20, .45 

17 X 22, .60 



Size. 

Royal, 19 X 24, 

Super Royal, 19x27, 
Imperial, 22 x 30, 



Per Quire. 

.So 

.90 

1.20 



148 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Wliatmaii's Drawing Paper. 





Size. 


Per Quire. 


Cap, 


13x17, 


$0.70 


Demy, 


15x20, 


•85 


Medium, 


17 X 22, 


1.25 


Royal, 


19x24, 


1.60 


Super Royal, 


19x27, 


2.00 


Elephant, 


23x28, 


3.00 



Imperial, 

Colombier, 23 x 34, 

Atlas, 26 x 34, 

Double Elephant, 27 x 40, 
Antiquarian, 31x53, 



Size. Per Quire. 

22 X 30, 3.00 

4-5° 
4-5° 

5-75 
18.00 



Antique or Egg-Shell Drawing Paper. 

A Superior Paper for Mechanical Drawifigs, in Sheets. 

Per Quire, $0.90 



Demy, 15 x 20 inches 

Medium, 17 x 22 " 

Royal, 19 X 24 " 

Imperial, 22 x 30 " 



1-35 
1.80 

2.70 



DRAWING CARDS. 

Bartholomew's Primary Drawing Cards, Nos. i, 2 and 



Each, $0. 



Coe's Drawing Cards, Nos. i to 10, - - - " 

" New Drawing Lessons, 4 parts, . . . " 

Siilitll's Drawing Cards, Nos. i and 2, - - - " 

Wllite's Primary Drawing Cards, - - - - 

" Manual for same, --..-.. 

" Practice Paper for same, - - - - Per pack, 

" Industrial Primary Drawing, 12 Cards, - Per set, 

" " Dictation Lessons for same. 

Drawing Books, No. i, 2, 3, - - Each, 

N0.4, 5, 6, - - " 
Exercise Book, large, - - Per doz., i 

" small, - - " I 

Progressive Art Studies, Elementary Series, A, B, C, D, 

Each, 



Ornamental 



a 
u 

Landscape '^ 
Instrumental '' 
Drawing Paper, 



A, B, " 
C, 

A,B,C, '^ 

A,B,C,D," 

Per pack, 



20 
.30 
•30 

•15 

.27 
.27 
,20 

•25 
.40 

•15 

,20 

.25 
.00 

•54 
•54 
•6s 
•54 
•54 
•35 



CATALOGUE OP SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 


149 


DEAWING BOOKS. 






Without Copies. Interleaved with White Tisstie 


Paper. 




Cap, Size, 6^ x Zy^ inches, 24 pages, Per dozen, 


$1.00 


Demy, '' 71^' x 914; " 24 " 




1-25 


Medium, " 83^ x 10^ " 24 '' 




1.50 


Cap, • " 6^ X Z% " 32 '' 




1.25 


Demy, " 7^x10^ " 32 <' 




1-75 


Medium, " 8^ x ii^ " 32 " 




2-75 


With Copies. 






Bartholomew's Industrial Drawing Books. 






Free-Hand Series, 6 books, - 


Each, 


$0.20 


Geometric " 2 " - , - 


a 


.20 


Model and Object Series, i book. 


u 


.20 


Perspective a j a . . 


u 


.20 


Teacher's Manual, or Guide, 


a 


1-75 


"Kriisi's System of Free-Hand and Industrial Drawin 


g- 




Synthetic Series, 4 books, - - . - 


a 


.18 


Analytical " 6 " .... 


(C 


.22 


Perspective " 4 '' .... 


u 


.27 


Advanced Perspective and Shading Series, 


4 




books, --..-.. 


u 


•35 


Manuals (one to each series), - - 


u 


•65 


Industrial Series, Textile Designs, 6 books, - 


Per set 


, 2.00 


" '' Mechanical 6 " 


u 


2.00 


" " Architectural 9 " 


a 


4.50 


Smith's System of Industrial and Artistic Drawing. 






Intermediate Series, 3 books. 


Each, 


•15 


Free-Hand Outline Series, 5 books, - 


a 


•25 


Model and Object '' 2 " - - 


tt 


•25 


Geometrical " 4 " - - 


a 


•25 


Perspective <' 2 " - - 


a 


•25 


Manual for Intermediate Series, - 


«■ 


1.25 


" Complete Course, 


a 


3.00 


Speiiceriaii Drawing Books.— An Elementary and 




Progressive Series, designed especially for the 


use of 




Schools, containing full and complete instructions for the 




use of both teacher and pupil. Five books, each 


contain- 




ing twenty-four lessons, . - . - - 


Each, 


•45 


Willson's Industrial Drawing- Series, 8 books, " 


.21 


" Drawing Guide, 


ti 


.90 



150 



BAKEE, PEATT & CO., NEW YOEK. 



W. Hermes Drawing School. 

6 Studies in Cover, 5^x 8^ inches, - - - Each, $0.25 
On the following Subjects : Series i, Easy Lessons in Drawing; 

2, Landscapes; 3, Flowers and Fruits; 4, Arabesques; 6, Animals; 

7, The Human Form; 8, Geometrical Drawing; 9, Architectural 

Drawing. 

W. Hermes, Drawing^ Master. 
4 Studies in Cover, 8^ x 11^ inches, - - Each, $0.50 
On the following Subjects: Series i, Landscapes; 2, Flowers and 

Fruits; 3, Heads; 5, Horses; 6, Animals; 7, Foliage. 



DRAWING BOARDS. 




No. 



No. O 



o. Drawing Board, pine, clamped, 12 x 17 inches, 



91. 
92. 

93- 

94. 

95- 




No. **°- ^- Each. 

3. Drawing Board, pine, nardwood ledges, dovetailed, 23 X31 inches, $3.00 



4. " " " " " 27x34 " 

5. " " " " " 31x42 " 

6. " " " " " 33x55 " 
90. Drawing Board, pine, hardwood ledges screwed to the back ; the 

screws run in slots to allow free contraction or expan- 



sion. 



16 X 21 inches, 

20 X 26 

23 X31 

27 X34 

31 X42 

33x55 



3-75 
4.50 
8.00 



1.50 
2.20 

3-5° 
4.25 

5.50 
9.00 



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151 



Sketch Books and Blocks. 




No. 



No. 1460. 

1460. Sketch Book, open leaves, white, 4^ x 6 inches, 



1461. 



" 6 xg 
•' 9 X 12 
tinted, 4i x 6 
" 5 x7 
" 6 x9 
^' 9 X 12 




No 






No. 1462 


. 


1462. 


Sketch Block, white 


, 3| X 5 inches, 


- 






u 


5 x7 " 


- 






ii 


7 X 10 '' 


- 






a 


10 x 14 " 


- 


1463. 




tinted, 


4i x 6 '' 


- 






a 


5 x7 " 


- 






a 


6 x9 " 


- 






u 


9 X 12 '' 


- 


1464. 




bound, 


white, 33 X 5 inches 






a 


'' 5 X7 








a 


" 7 X 10 








i( 


" 10 X 14 




1465. 




" tinted, 4^ x 6 








li 


" 5 X7 








u 


" 6 x9 








a 


" 9 X 12 





Each. 
$0.60 

•75 
I. GO 

1-75 
.65 

•95 
1. 10 

1.80 



Each. 
$0.25 

.40 

.65 

I. IS 

.40 
.60 

•75 
1.15 

.65 
1. 00 
1.40 
2.00 

•95 
1. 10 
1.40 
2.00 



Blotting Paper. 



This we furnish in large sheets, or cut to the most convenient sizes for 

general use. 

Large sheets, 120 lb., size, 19 x 24 inches, - - - per doz., $0.90 

". " 100 " " 19x24 " ,- - - " .75 

" " 80 " " 19x24 " - - , - '' .60 

Small " 100 " " 4 X 9;^ " . _ . per gross, .90 

" " 100 " '' 6x 9K " - - - " 1-35 



152 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Johnson's Home Health-Lift. 

Beauty, Freshness of Complexion, Symmetry of Form, Health, Strength^ 
Longevity, atid even Life Itself are impossible without Exercise. 




The vigor of the Physical Con- 
stitution is no less dependent upon 
Habitual Exercise than upon Food; 
hence it should be Taken with the 
bame Regularity as Food. Physical 
Culture is Indispensable to Mental 
Culture, as a SOUND MIND is 
Possible Only in a SOUND BODY. 
Activity and Clearness of Intellect, 
Cheerful Spirit and Agreeable Dis-j 
position, are no less Dependent 
upon a Free, Full, and Healthful 
Action of ALL the Physical Func- 
tions, than upon the Size and 
Quality of the Brain. Hence, ALL 
Persons — MEN, WOMEN, and 
i CHILDREN — whose business doe.'- 
\ not afford proper physical Exer 
tion, should be provided with thit 
new and improved HEALTH- 
LIFT, as a Cheap and ever 
^ Convenient means of Gen- 
eral and Cumulative Exer- 



Dr. Johnson'sl 
Home Healtli - 
L/ift is the most popu-i 



^mK 



lar of all : Because it is the Cheapest — Most Durable — Least likely to 
get out of Order — The Lightest — Most Compact — Most Portable 
— Most Ornamental — Can be kept in any Room of the House — 
Simplest in Construction — Most Convenient to Use, requiring no 
Change of Dress, Compound Adjustment, or Professional 
Assistant — Hence it can be used at Home, and Afforded by the 
Many. Price, ------ $30.00. 

The Machines delivered to Express in New York. The expense of 
transportation is but a trifle, as the Apparatus, Boxed, weighs only 35 
lbs. Send for complete descriptive circular containing hundreds of 
Testimonials. 



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153 



GYMNASTICS. 

The nations of former times from whom the present 
age has received some of its richest legacies in Uterature and art, were 
those who held that physical and mental culture were co-equal in value. 
Irregular at first, though encouraged among the young, physical exercise 
was afterward reduced to a method, and made a prominent feature in 
the public educational system. The wisest legislators considered that no 
government could be perfect in which the gymnasium was neglected. 

The student who applies himself to the improvement of the mind 
only, forgetting that good digestion and bodily and mental healthful- 
ness are interdependent, is sure to regret, and often when disease has 
become ineradicably fixed, the neglect of that mutual and systematic 
development of mind and body which enables men and women to 
accomplish the greatest results without an excessive drain upon either 
their mental or physical powers. 

We have here selected such of our gymnastic apparatus as we 
believe is, in all respects, the best for school and home use. It is 
adapted to all— girls and boys, men and women. It can be used any- 
where, in doors or out; is made of the best material, well-finished, strong 
and durable. 

Price List of Gryiiinastic Apparatus. 

Hand-Rings, . Per pair, $0.65 

Wands, 28 to 40 inches long, . . . . . Each, .25 
" 4.1 " 60 " " " .35 

Indian Clubs. 



I lb. 


each, 


2 


u 


3 


u 


4 


li 


5 


a 


lib. 


each, 


2 


u 


3 


a 


4 


li 



Per pair, $1.00 
1.50 



2.00 
2.25 
2-75 



6 lb. each, 

7 ■ " 

8 " 



Per pair, $3.25 

. " 3-75 

" 4-25 

" 5.00 



Dumb -Bells. 



Per pair, $0.60 

" .70 

" .90 

1.25 



5 lb. each, 

6 « 

7 " 

8 « 



Kehoe's Book on Use of Clubs, illustrated. 

Manual of Calisthenics, by Watson, illustrated. 

Handbook of Gymnastics, by Watson, highly illustrated. 

New Gymnastics, for Men, Women, and Children, by Dio Lewis, 



Per pair. 


$1-75 

2.25 




2-75 
3-25 


- 


1. 00 


■ 


1.25 


■ 


2.00 


io Lewis, 


1.50 



154 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 




The Wands are made of thoroughly seasoned black walnut, 
in length varying from twenty-eight inches to five feet. They furnish 
many beautiful and eifective exercises, and may be regarded as almost 
indispensable in the formation of a system of physical training. When 
held vertically at the side, the wand should extend from the floor to 
the lobe of the ear. Some of the most valuable movements cannot 
be executed with shorter ones. 




The best Ring's are of wood in three sections, glued to- 
gether, the grain running in opposite directions. Ours are made of 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 



155 



walnut for the two outside sections, the centre being hard maple. 
They afford opportunities for so many graceful positions and effective 
movements in combination for persons of all ages that they are highly 
esteemed and classed among the best apparatus for physical exercise. 




Dumb Bells are inferior to no other article of Gymnastic Ap- 
paratus. With a pair of these every muscle and 
joint of the body may be exercised in a short 
space of time. Persons of ingenuity and skill 
can make them to represent almost the entire 
apparatus of the gymnasium. By rapid changes 
they appear as hand-rings, parallel bars, Indian 
clubs, a wand, a foil — though occupying but 
little space, either at rest or in motion. 

Indian Clubs rank among the very best 
of all gymnastic apparatus. Commencing with 
light implements and simple exercises, the stu- 
dent may soon learn to handle heavy clubs 
with ease and expertness, executing the most 
complicated motions. Movements that seemed 
awkward and hopelessly difficult at first soon 
become easy, graceful, and exhilarating. 




156 



BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Dr. Barnett's Patent Chest Expander. 

Recommended, by leadings physicians, and used by 
the pupils of a large number of public and private schools in New 
York and other cities. 

A COMPLETE POCKET GYMNASIUM. 

This is a simple health apparatus adapted for use by persons of 
both sexes and all ages. 







It is invaluable to those who are afflicted with dyspepsia, 
and is highly prized by persons of sedentary habits, the round 
shouldered, and the narrow chested. The cuts show the simplicity of 
this apparatus. The expanders are made of different grades of elasticity, 
to suit all degrees of strength, from that of the young girl to the giant 
strength of the gymnast. As with Indian clubs and dumb-bells, a 
variety of graceful movements may be executed, and their systematic 
and persistent use will so develop the chest and muscles and promote 
circulation of the blood as to surprise those who use them, that an ex- 
ercising apparatus can at once be so simple and accomplish such 
beneficial results. 








The Hon. Henry Kiddle, Superintendent of New York Public 
Schools, recommends it as follows : " It has been used in very many of 
the public schools of this city, and has been found a very valuable aid 
in conducting exercises for physical culture. No apparatus that I have 
seen seems to be so well calculated to promote the object designed, 
while the exercises are agreeable, graceful, and appropriate for schools." 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MEECHANDISE. 



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Improved Parlor Gymnasium. 

A Superior System of Exercise convenient to all. 








A most complete apparatus for home and school use. 

Can be folded up and carried in the pocket. Admits of as great 
a variety of exercise as dumb-bells, Indian clubs, rings, wands, etc., 
while its use is more graceful, and its results more satisfactory. Adapted 
to all degrees of strength. 

It rests the tired brain and body. 

It refreshes and invigorates the entire system. 



Prices of Inii>rovecl Parlor Gynmasium. 

Round Bands. Flat Bands. 

No. I. For children 4 years old, - 

2. For children 6 to 10 years old, - 

3. For children 10 to 14 years old, 

4. Ladies, children, and youths, 

5. Gentlemen of moderate strength, 

6. Gentlemen of extra strength, 

Note. — The flat band is in improved form. 

They are all elegant, graceful, and effective in their uses. Recom- 
mended by the highest medical and educational authorities, and by all 
who use them. 

In ordering, please state whether the round or the flat band is 
preferred. 



$0.30 


$0.30 


.60 


.60 


.90 


.90 


1.20 


1.20 


1.50 


1.50 


1.80 


1.80 



Prices of Dr. Barnett's Patent Chest Expander. 



No. 



$0.30 


No. 4, 


.60 


" 5, 


.90 


" 6, 



$1.20 

1.50 
1.80 



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Pierce's Foldiiisr Bow Gun. 



For the Lawn or the Parlor. 




This is a new and 
nnique implement of 
Archery, widely differing 
from the common cross- 
bow, or the bow and arrow in general use. The pecu- 
liarity of its construction consists in shaping a spring- 
steel bow in a novel form and bringing it to the stock 
so that it is easily folded parallel to the barrel. This 
steel bow imparts great force and accuracy to the flight 
of the dart, while its peculiar bend and the method of attaching it to 
the hinge-cushion ensure great durability. 

Tliis Bo"W Gun is complete in every part, and well adapted 
to target shooting, either on the lawn or in the parlor. An adjustable 
sight attached to the butt of the barrel fits it for short or long range 
shooting. 

Jn tlie breecll of the Bow Gun are four pockets, three contain 
darts, and the other is filled with chalk with which to whiten the end of 
the blunt pointed darts, so they will leave their mark on the target. 

Eacli Bow Grun is carefully tested before it leaves the factory, 
and the darts are all tried to see that they are properly balanced. 

Darts may "be had either with flat, blunt point, or with steel 
spike in the end. Persons of little experience should use the blunt 
pointed darts. 

Targets made of wood, twelve inches in diameter, with 
two faces, one for sharp pointed darts and the other for blunt darts, 
properly divided for counting the scores, are supplied when desired. 



PRICES. 

Bow Gun, finely finished, in neat wooden case, 
Extra Darts, per dozen, . - . . 
Targets, each, 



$5.00 

1. 00 

•75 



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KINDERGAETEN MATERIAL. 

We invite a careful examination of our material for the Kin- 
(lerg'arteil, feeling confident that it is the most accurate and in all 
respects the best manufactured. The following list embraces the twenty 
" Gifts " of Froebel, and the best books on the theory and methods 
of using them. 

First Gift. 

Six Soft, Colored Balls, 

For teaching color, form^ direction, grace and 
precision of movement. 
A set of 6 balls, primary and secondary colors, 

in wooden box, ... - $0.75 

Second Gift. 

sphere, Cylinder and Cube, 
For teaching form and comparison of ob- 
jects, counting, sides, corners and edges of 
the cube, and observing different qualities 
and uses arising from difference in shape. 
The sphere always presents the same appear- 
ance, but the cube and cylinder vary accord- 
ing to the point from which they are viewed. 
The cube whirled rapidly presents the appear- 
ance of the sphere. 

The forms are accurately made and provided with necessary staples 
and holes for hanging. 

Per box. 

In wooden box, with cross-beam for suspending the forms, - $0.60 

Third Gift. 

J^arge Cube, Consisting of Eight Small Cubes. 

For teaching form and number (including fractions), 
and for arranging, designing and building. 

By means of this gift, children can follow their nat- 
ural instinct of taking things apart to see how they are ^ 
put together, without, as in the case of a broken toy, 
being unable to restore it to its original form. 

In neat wooden box, with sliding cover, - 
Diagrams for the Third Gift, 





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Fourth Gift. 

Large Cube, Consisting of Eight Oblong Blocks. 

For teaching length, breadth and thickness, and 
for arranging, designing and building, in easy de- 
signs, by young children. 

To be compared and contrasted with the Third 
Gift. 

Price, in strong wooden box, ----... $0.20 
Diagrams for the Fourth Gift, --.--.. ,20 





Fifth Gift. 

Large Cube, Divided into Twenty-one Whole, Six Half and Twelve Quar- 
ter Cubes, for^ning altogether Twenty-seven Small Cubes and 
One Large Cube. 

For continuing instruction in form and 
number, and for arranging, designing and 
building. 

This gift is supplementary to the Third 
Gift. 

By quartering the cubes, the triangular 
form is introduced, and an increased amount of material is put into the 
hands of the child, increasing the number and variety of fundamental 
forms, numerical and other relations, and creative possibilities. 
Price, in strong wooden box, -.--... $0.40 
Diagrams for the Fifth Gift, ----.._ ,^0 

Sixth Gift. 

Large Cube, Consisting of Eighteen Whole Oblotig Blocks, Three Similar 
Blocks Divided Lengthwise and Six Divided Breadthwise. 

For continuing instruction in form and 
number, and for arranging, designing and 
building. 

This gift is supplementary to the Fourth 
Gift. 

Price, in strong wooden box, - - $0.40 
Diagrams for the Sixth Gift, - - .30 
The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Gifts serve as building blocks, 
and are most important aids to the developing system of the Kinder- 
garten. The first six gifts only are used in serial order, the others, after 
the second, being introduced at the discretion of the teacher. 




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161 



Seventh Gift. 

Quadrangular and Triangular Tablets for Laying Figures. 

For teaching plane surfaces as distinguished from solids, continuing 
instruction in proportion, and developing taste in building and arranging. 

In the six previous gifts solids only are considered ; by the tablets, 
plane surfaces are presented. This gift comprises seven forms, with 
careful attention to proportion and exactness, thus giving opportunity 
to children for the widest exercise of their ingenuity and taste in design- 
ing forms of use and beauty. 

The tablets are very carefully made in primary and secondary 
colors, and polished. 




A B 

Four Larg-e Right Angled Triangles. Eight Inch Squares. 

Price, in strong wooden box, $0.25 Price, in strong wooden box, $0.30 
Sixteen Right Angled Scalene Tri- Diagrams for Seventh Gift, B, .40 
angles. 

Orange and blue. In a wooden box, $0.30 





C D 

Nine Large Equilateral Triangles. Sixteen Isosceles Triangles. 

Price, in strong wooden box, $0.30 Price, in strong wooden box, $0.30 

Diagrams for Seventh Gift, C, .40 Diagrams for Seventh Gift, D, .40 





Thirty-two Isosceles Triangles. Fifty-four Equilateral Triangles. 

Price, in strong wooden box, $0.40 Price, in strong wooden box, $0.50 
Diagrams for Seventh Gift, E, .40 Diagrams for Seventh Gift, F, .40 





G H 

Fifty-six Isosceles Triang-les. Fifty-six Scalene Triangles, 

Price, in strong wooden box, $0.50 Price, in strong wooden box, $0.60 
Diagrams for Seventh Gift, G, .40 Diagramsfor Seventh Gift, H, .40 

Sixty-four Obtuse Angled Triangles. 
Price, in strong wooden box, - $0.60 
Diagrams for Seventh Gift, I, - .40 

Eighth Gift. 

A. — The Jointed or Connected Slat. 

This serves as a bridge between the plane surface and the stick. 
The first (A) shows how one form is developed from another, for in- 
stance, the Rhombus from the square, etc. It consists of thin slats of 
hardwood, united, forming a jointed rule. 

(a.) Set of 6 links, each 4 inches long, .... $0.10 

(b.) " 10 " 4 " .... .15 

(C.) " 16 " 3 " .... .25 

Diagrams, --.----.-. .^o 

B.— The Disconnected Slat. 

Thin slats of wood, varying in length and thickness, are used for 
interlacing. 
50 wooden slats (black walnut) 9 inches long, - - - $0.15 
100 '- " 9 " ... .25 

100 splints, light wood, - - - - - - - .10 

Diagrams, -.-.---.-- .30 

C.-The Sticks. 

■ Sticks for Stick Laying. 

==^ I For teaching numerical propor- 

tions and designing. The letters of the alphabet and the numerals may 
also be copied. After surfaces come lines. The Eighth Gift shows the 
straight lines. 
Paper box containing sticks, about 1300, assorted, i, 2, 3^ 4 and 5 

inches long, --------- $0.35 

Diagrams for same, ..-.---- ,30 

Package containing 1000 sticks, 6 inches long, - - - .25 



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Ninth Gift. 

Rings for Ring Laying, including Whole, Half, and Quarter Rings of 

Various Sizes. 

^>.yi^ 1 I For teaching the curved hne, diam- 

j^ j^"^ /TTN 'N^'^/^ ®^^^' circumference, radius and the 

( ( y vN^ A A elements of form, and for the devel- 

^"■"^ yVT ^"^ opment of taste in arranging and de- 

-^"^ ^ * signing. 

Wooden box, containing whole, half and quarter rings of various 

sizes, ----...--- $0.50 
Diagrams for same, - -.....- .^o 

Tentli Gift. 

[TAe Gifts front Ten to Twenty, inclusive, are known as Occupation Material.^ 

Drawing' Slates and Paper Ruled in Squares. 

With drawing material prepared in this way, 
the child begins systematically to acquire and 
perfect his ideas of proportion, and to train the 
hand to draw correctly. The slates are used 
first, then the paper. 

Noiseless Kindergarten Slates, 
ruled in squares, noiseless rim. Highest Paris 
award, 1878. 
A, 5 X 7, ruled in squares, - - $0.30 

A, 6 X 9, " " - ■ - .35 

B, s X 7, " " - - .20 
B, 6 X 9, " " - - .25 

Noiseless slates, with wide rim, on which are geometric figures or 
diagrams for connecting class copying, 6x9, each, - - $0.40 

Paper, good quality, ruled two sides in squares (accurately) \ 
inch, \ inch, or \ inch, per quire, - $0,40 

Drawing Books, Ruled in Squares. 

For Pupils. 
Smooth Paper. 24 pages, \ inch or \ inch, . - $0.15 

Drawing Books. 24 pages, 7x8^ inches, per dozen, - i.oo 

For Teachers. 

Smooth. Paper. 48 pages, interleaved with tissue paper, 

ruled \ inch, \ inch, or \ inch, each, - - - $0.40 

Drawing Paper. 48 pages, interleaved with tissue paper, 

ruled \ inch, \ inch, or \ inch, each, . . - . .50 



IH 


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164 BAKEE, PRATT & CO., NEW YOEK. 

Eleventh Gift. 

Perforating' Paper. After the line comes, finally, the 
point. The Perforating Paper is ruled in y^ inch squares, and the 
child is taught to prick with the Perforating Needles, at first, straight 
lines and figures with straight lines, and afterward, designs involving 
curved lines. The work, when accurately done, may be laid aside to be 
used in connection with the next gift. The use of this gift develops 
Neatness, Care, Accuracy in the use of the Hand, and continues the 
habit of Designing. 

Package of 50 sheets, 11 x 8^^ inches, ruled on one side, each, $0.50 

" 25 sheets cardboard, 5^ X 7 inches, - - - .20 

Perforating Cushions, for laying the paper on when at work, each, . 1 5 

" Needles, long or short handles, each, - - - .05 

" " " " per dozen, - - .50 

Diagrams, .....----- .^o 

Albums for mounting — see list of prices elsewhere. 

Twelfth Gift. 

Enibroideriiig' Material. This gift follows, naturally, 
the last, the best of the perforated material being reserved for embroid- 
ery. The ruled paper and cardboard of the last gift may be obtained 
for this, or, if it is not desired to have the children perforate their own 
paper, it may be obtained already perforated. 
Package of 25 sheets cardboard, 4x4 inches, ruled one side, j^ 

inch, ... - $0-15 

Package 4x4 inches, perforated, i^ inch, - - - -.15 

" 8x8 " ruled one side, yl inch, - • - .25 

" Diagrams, ....-.-. .^o 

Albums for mounting — see price list elsewhere. 

Tliirteeiith Gift. 

Paper for Cutting', This gift consists of squares of paper, 
which the children are taught to fold in various patterns, and then cut, 
with scissors, into symmetrical figures, which may then be mounted on 
paper or in books, and retained as evidence of the child's progress. 
Package containing 100 pieces 4x4 inch paper, assorted colors, $0.15 
" 30 sheets 9x9 inches, stout white paper 

for mounting, --------- .30 

Package containing 30 sheets 9x9 inches, Manila paper, for 

mounting, ----.-..- .20 

Diagrams, ..-.--.... .30 

Albums for mounting — see list of prices elsewhere. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 165 

Fourteenth Gift. 

Paper for Weaving". This gift consists of slitted mats and 
strips of variously colored paper, which are woven and interlaced so as 
to form patterns which may then be mounted on paper or in Albums. 
The mats are furnished in assorted colors, and the mounts should be of 
the suitable contrasting colors, or of gray. 

N. B. — The boxes of Weaving Material put up by us contain, 
when square, a double quantity of mats and no strips, which are always 
cut from the mats. This is better done as used, thus preventing waste 
and enabling all the material to be used. 

Weaving Material. We suggest to those ordering, that it 
Avill often not be possible for us to match .colors, unless ordered in large 
quantities. We are constantly buying and cutting paper of the most 
brilliant colors to be found in the market, but our assortment is likely 
to vary from time to time. We will send, on apphcation, sa?npks of 
the colors in stock at any time of the teacher'' s paper, mounted on a card. 
From this card the colors may be ordered in any combination desired, 
but only in even packages of 24 mats (the equivalent of 12 mats and 
12 strips). 
Price per package of 24 mats, about 7x7 inches, slits yk inch 

or H inch, in paper box, ------- $0.18 

Put up in assorted colors of fine glazed paper, in packages of 24 
mats (the equivalent of 12 mats and 12 strips) : 

Price per package of 24 mats, about 7x7 inches, in wrappers, $0.15 

Slits, V% inch, assorted colors, -15 

" /6 " " - , .15 

"X " " - - .15 

« ^ " " ..-...- .15 
" >^ " " - - .15 

" alternating y% and ^, assorted colors, - - - - .15 
We also furnish oblong mats, about 5x7 inches, same price. We 
have on hand about 50 kinds of mats. In ordering, please specify 
exactly what is wanted. 

Weaving Needles, steel (patent), each, - - - - - $0.10 

" " " per dozen, - - - - 1,00 

Diagrams, - - - -3° 

Albums for mounting the finished work — see price Hst elsewhere. 

The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Gifts are included in the 
Eighth Gift,- which see. 



166 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Seventeenth Gift. 

Paper for Intertwining:. Paper strips of various colors, 
eight or ten inches long, to be folded lengthwise, and used to represent 
geometrical and fancy figures. 
Packages containing 50 strips of different widths, assorted 

colors, each, .-.---,-. $0.08 
A package containing blue strips, - - - - . - .08 

" " pink " .08 

Diagrams, -.....-... .30 

Albums for mounting — see price list elsewhere. 

Eighteenth Grift. 

Paj)er for Folding. This material consists of paper cut 
perfectly square, which may be subdivided into triangles or other forms, 
and folded into various shapes. 
100 squares, 4x4 inches, French folio, assorted colors, in neat 

package, - - - - $0.15 

A package of assorted colors, medium paper, - - - ♦ .15 

" " " glazed paper, .... .20 

Diagrams, .-.---.... .75 

Albums for mounting — see price list elsewhere. 

Nineteenth Gift. 

Peas Work. Peas are soaked in water for six or eight hours, 
and pieces of wire of various lengths are stuck into them, the peas 
forming the means of connecting the wires, and thus form the skeleton 
of geometrical figures and real objects. There is no more fascinating 
or useful occupation for children than this. Instead of the peas, cubes 
of cork are sometimes used. The cork cubes we furnish ; the peas can 
be obtained anywhere. 

Package containing 100 wires of i, 2 and 3 inches in length, - $0.20 
Package containing 100 cork cubes, each, ... - .25 

Diagrams, .......... .30 

Twentieth Gift. 

Modeling. Suitable clay, properly prepared, is kept for this 
purpose. Modeling wax is sometimes used by teachers. There are 
modeling knives and tools of various shapes, one or two of which will 
usually be sufficient. 

Modeling Clay, $0-05 

" Boards, each, - - - - - - - "'^S 

" Knives, each, common, .10 

" Tools, each, .20 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MEECHANDISE. 167 

Miscellaneous. 

Albums for Mounting' completed work in the Eleventh, 
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Gifts. 
Albums, Gray Paper, 24 pp., 9 x 10 inches, - - - - $0.20 

" " 48 u C< .... .30 

" Assorted Colored Paper, -24 pp., 9 x 10 inches, - - .20 

" " " 48 " " - - .30 

Wrappers or Portfolios, 6x7 or 8x10 in., stiff Manilla, per doz., .60 
Kindergarten Tables, hard wood, marked (accurately) in 

inch squares, 20 x 36 inches, each, . . . - . 4.00 

Tables, 3 feet long, 16 inches wide, harp leg and folding, - - 5.00 

" 2 . " same style, - - - - - - 4.50 

Other sizes to order. 

Kinderg-arten Chairs, each, ..... i.oo 

BOOKS ON KINDERGARTNENG. 

DouAi — Manual for the Kindergarten, - - - - - $1.00 

Kraus-Boelte — Kindergarten Guide, No. i, - - - - .35 

" " " 2, - - - - .70 

Hoffman — Kindergarten Toys, - - - - - .20 

Hailman — Kindergarten Culture, - .75 

Kreige (M. H.)— The Child, - - - - - - - i.oo 

Mann & Peabody — Kindergarten Guide, - - - - 1.25 

WiEBE — Paradise of Childhood. In four parts, each, in paper,- .75 

Complete, in paper, ...... 2.50 

Complete, cloth, .--.--- 3.00 

Craft — The Coming Man the Present Child, .... 1.50 

Mann — Von Bulow's Reminiscences of Froebel, - - - 1.50 

Mother Play and Nursery Songs from Froebel, newly translated, 2.00 
Also, many other Kindergarten works furnished to order. 

Books for Instructing the Deaf and Dumb. 

Elementary Liessons. By H. P. Peet, LL.D. Pp. 308. $0.85. 

Course of Instruction. Part III. By Harvey P. Peet, 

LL.D. Fully Illustrated. Pp. 252, - - - $1.25 

Containing a development of the verb; illustrations of idioms; 
lessons on the different periods of human life ; natural history of ani- 
mals, and a description of each month in the year. 
lianguage Lessons. By Isaac Lewis Peet, LL.D. Script 
Type. Pp. 232, $1.25 

Designed to introduce young learners, deaf-mutes, and foreigners 
to a correct understanding and use of the English language. 



168 BAKEE, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 



Metric Apparatus for Schools. 

For the Accominodation of Teachers, and to Save the Cost 
of Transportation from Boston, the educational society for intro- 
ducing the metric system — the American Metric Bureau — has estab- 
lished at our store a Depository for the Exhibition and Sale of 
Metric Boolfs, Cliarts, and Apparatus for Teaching. All inter- 
ested may obtain from us explanatory ci-rculars, tables, and list of apparatus 
with descriptions, prices, and everything pertaining to the metric system, 
on the same terms as at the general office of the society in Boston. 

This society has a Sinking Fund of $10,000, loaned by friends 
of the system. This is applied to the manufacture of metric apparatus, to be 
sold at only enough advance on cost of material and labor to meet necessary 
expenses. The Trustees receive no compensation for their services, and 
employ no traveling agents. The expenses are, therefore, very small. 

The most necessary articles for teaching, introducing, or using the 
metric system are sold at one-half the Factory Prices; others at 
wholesale prices, and a few (so controlled that the Bureau is not allowed to 
undersell) as low as they can be had anywhere. The following articles (the 
most called for) can be had at the Bureau, or at our store, for one-half the 
regular prices here printed. 

In ordering., always give printed price., and send one-half the total 
amount of the bill, which will be receipted for as fully paid. 

Meters. (Polished and graduated on four edges.) Maple meter 
stick, 33 cts. ; brass tips, 40 cts.; pointer, each cm. and dm. marked, 32 
cts. ; school meter, best for exhibition, $1.20. 

Desk Kules. 30 cm., heavy, wide, polished maple, 20 cts.; brass- 
mounted, 35c. 

School Kules. 30 cm., light maple, loc. ; boxwood, best, 15 cts.; 
printed, less accurate and durable, 4 cts. $2.00 per hundred. 

Pocket Kules. (Boxwood, graduated on four edges, brass-mounted. ) 

Foiir-fold. Meter, 80 cts.; best quality, arch joint, fine finish, $1.40; 
broad, 33 mm wide, best, arch, etc., $i.68j 40 cm., best size for pocket, 
75-ct. form, 40 cts. ; extra strong, generally chosen, 50 cts. ; best quality, 
70 cts. ; with caliper, $1.20; bound in brass, $1.25. 

Five-fold. (Five double decimeters jointed into a full meter. ) Steel 
springs, $1.06; without springs, 48 cts., 20 cts., and 16 cts. 

Capacity Measures. The wood and copper measures are, like the 
rules, sold at half price. For the present the tin measures are offered at 
one-thii"d price. 

CAPACITY MEASURES. 



Factory price. 


Wood. 


Tin. 


Copper. 




Factory price. Wood. Tin. Copper. 


Centiliter, 




$o.is 


$0.30 


Yi, Dekaliter, - $0.60 $1.50 $3.00 


2 " 




.1=; 


•30 


I 


" - 1. 00 2.25 4.50 


Yz Deciliter, 




•IS 


•30 








I " 


$0.20 


•IS 


•30 


Nest. 


All 10 pieces, 2.95 6.15 12.30 


2 


.20 


•IS 


•30 


<( 


2 liter down 


y^ Liter, - 


.20 


•30 


.60 




8 pieces, 1.35 2.40 4.80 


I " - - 


.30 


•45 


.90 


(I 


Liter down, 7 


2 " • - 


•45 


.90 


1.80 




pieces, .90 1.50 3.00 



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Weights. Fairbanks', brass, 13 pieces, with knobs, in polished 
block, K. to I g., $8.65. 

Scales. Iron, double platform, 2 g. upward, $2.50; finer, with index, 
$6.40. 

Paper Meter- Yard. This is strongly recommended as the best 
known aid to the use of the Metric System. It may easily be carried in the 
vest pocket, and it answers most metric questions at sight, 20 cents. 

Over fifty of the best metric publications at one-half price. Send for 
full descriptive list. 

The prices below for sets are the reduced prices, scmie half, others 
wholesale, and a7e not to be halved. 

Complete Sets of Apparatus. Without the actual weights and 
measures, a full set, everything needed for best teaching, 15 pieces, costs 
for the cheapest form, $7.34; favorite form, $8.75 ; best form, $10.30. A 
still cheaper form with the solid instead of dissected liter block costs only 
$4.04. For full descriptions see Metric Bulletin, pages 413-425. 

Sets of Actual Measures. The most needed for the best practical 
teaching are given with prices for each quality. To reduce cost of the set 
omit from the end of the list in order. The prices in this list are not to be 
halved. A part are put down at half price, the rest are at wholesale prices, 
all at the lowest terms on which they are furnished by the Metric Bureau, 
by which the selection is made as the best. Having decided whether to buy 
the best, the regular, or the cheapest quality go down the list till the limit 
of expense is reached. 

Weights and Measures. No. 

Liter, kilo, and gram, ------ 

Dek., decil., and centil., -.._-_ 
Deka. , and liektog. weights, . . - . 

Scale (if school has none), - - - - - 

Ten-meter tape, in case, . - - _ - 
9 weights, completing 2 K. set, . - - . 
Liter, decil., and centil., market form, - 
Meters, i, 2, 4, 5, and lo-fold, - . - - 
Tailors' tape, i^ meter (no case), 
2 and 5 cl., 2 and 5 dl, 2 1., completing standard 
capacity set, ------- 

Centigrade thermometer, - - . - - 
Half-meters, i, 2, 4, and lo-fold, 
20, 30 D., 30 S., and 40 cm. rules, - - . 
Double meter, lo-fold, spring rod, . _ - 
6 market measures, completing set, - . . 

Total, 49 $26.88 $14.37 $9.79 

As the society does this work from educational, not commercial 
naotives, and without profit above expenses; and as we have taken this 
Depository for the accommodation of our patrons and educators gener- 
ally, and without charge for rent or labor, it is necessary to observe the 
Bureau rules as to terms of sale : Cash on Delivery in our Store. 
Postage, express^ packing-cases, transportation, incidentals, atid risk must 
be borne by the buyer. 

A Full Descriptive Catalogue Mailed on Application. 



Piece 


s. Best. 


Regular. 


Cheapest. 


.3 


$2.60 


$1.23 


$0.45 


3 


.80 


.80 


.60 


2 


I-I5 


•58 


.28 


I 


3.60 


1.60 


1.25 


I 


2.40 


.66 


.40 


9 


5-35 


2.68 


1.36 


.3 


•75 


•30 


•25 


5 


2.26 


1.64 


1. 10 


I 


•25 


.09 


•03 


5 


1.65 


•55 


•55 


I 


1. 17 


•75 


•25 


4 


i-iS 


1.05 


,91 


4 


.74 


•53 


•45 


I 


1.06 


1.06 


1.06 


6 


1.95 


•85 


•85 



170 BAKER, PRATT & CO., NEW YORK. 

Minerals and Rocks. 

We have several collections of Rocks and IMinerals for 
beginners and advanced pupils. Prof. Dana says : " There is no study- 
ing jMineralogy or Geology without a collection of this kind. Every 
academy in New York, as well as in the other States, should have one." 

Set Xo. 1 comprises 25 Rocks and Minerals, viz.: Coarse Gran- 
ite, Fine Granite, Graphic Granite, Syenite, Gneiss, Quartz, Feldspar, 
Mica, Hornblende, Trap, Lava, Sandstone, Conglomerate, Calcite, 
Granular Limestone, Compact Limestone, Hydraulic Limestone, Fos- 
siliferous Limestone, Serpentine, Talc, Steatite, Gypsum, Graphite, Bar}-- 
tes, and Sulphur. Price, in neat box, - - - - $3.50 

Set Xo, 3 consists of 25 Metals, as follows : Gold, Silver, Cinna- 
bar, Native Copper, Copper Pyrites, Malachite, Native Iron, Iron Pyr- 
ites, Arsenical Iron, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Carbonate of Iron, 
Chromic Iron, Stream Tin, Galena, Zinc Blende, Zincite, Willemite, 
Calamine, Bismuth, Antimony, Nickel, Pyrolusite, and AUanite. 

Price, in neat box, ------ $3.00 

We will supply both sets when ordered at the same time for $5.00. 

Student's Elementary Collection of Minerals and 
Rocks. 50 specimens. In pasteboard box, $12.00; in black walnut 
case, $15.00. 

Advanced Student's Collection in 3Iineralogy. 
Arranged according to Dana's Manual. 100 specimens. In pasteboard 
case, $25.00; in black walnut case, $30.00. 

The same chemically arranged according to the fifth edition of 
Prof. Dana's ]Mineralog}\ Same styles and prices. 

Advanced Student's Collection in Geology. 100 
specimens. (According to the latest edition of Prof Dana's Geology.) 
In pasteboard box, $25.00; in black walnut case, $30.00. 

The Advanced Student's Collection in Mineral- 
ogy, with the Advanced Student's Collection in Geology. 200 speci- 
mens. In pasteboard cases, $50.00; in black walnut cases, $55.00. 

Colleges, Academies, Schools and Amateurs supplied with Cabin- 
ets or single specimens. Also with Fossils and Shells. 

Scales of hardness, specimens for blowpipe and chemical analysis 
supplied to order. 

Geological Implements sui>plied to order. 

The above collections sent by express, securely packed^ to any part 
of the country. Purchaser to pay express charges. 

Those who are about to arrange collections of Geological speci- 
mens should consult us before doing so as we have frequent opportu- 
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The MacKinnon Pen. 

Patented March 21, 1876, Apnl 23, 1S78, and January 21, 1879. 

The MacKinnon Pen is an entirely new writing instrument for the 
desk or pocket, combining the convenience of the lead pencil and the per- 
manency of pen and ink. It is neat and clean, and can be carried in 
J the pocket always ready for nse. 

"^ One filling lasts a week or more, according 
:s to the extent of use, and can easily be re- 
^ plenished. 

^ This j)en supplies the want long felt 

"S for an ink writing instrument that may be 

2 used with the facihty of a lead pencil, on all 

•| kinds of paper, and for all memorandum, 

^ manuscript or letter wntmg, etc., and m fact 

li for all general writing where a lead pencil 

^ or pen is used. It is constructed upon an 

f^ entirely new and scientific principle, and 

c' writes without shading, always producing 

J ^ the same breadth of line, whether the hand 

IS -; is carried lightly or with pressure ; mere 

contact with paper being all that is neces- 

< I sary. 

2 4 Where speed and leg-ibility are 

o "^ desired it is far preferable to the ordinary 

" i pen, as the necessity of constantly dipping 

^ for ink is avoided, and the smoothness and 

"1 shape of the point admit of a free passage 

^ over the paper without danger of catching, 

•g leaving a clear uniform line. 

u As an office ruling' pen it sur- 

% passes everything else, as blots are rendered 

" impossible. 

I For a pocket pen the perfect state 

K of completeness is arrived at, as the pen 

"* filled with ink can be made perfectly air 

a tight and instantly ready for use. 




PRICES. 



Short, plain case, 
" chased case. 

Long, plain case, 
" chased case, 



$3.50 
4.00 

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Pure Rubber Bands. 

Owing' to the great variety of uses for which these 
articles are intended, they should be made of rubber that Avill be elastic 
and durable. These goods are made of selected Pure Gum 
stoclt, and finished in a careful manner. 

They will keep in any chmate, and are warranted Pui*e Kub- 

ber.. 




Sings. 

Nos. I to 20, and 50, according to size and 
Aveight. 



Pure Gum Rings. 




Nos. 42 to 45, according to size. 



No. 




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2.50 


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2.50 


3.00 


13- 


i| 


" 


- 


2.75 


3-50 


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3.00 


4.00 


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3-25 


4.50 


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2j 


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1-75 


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The School BiiUetiu Publications. 

The following will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price. 

ALDElSr. First Principles of Political Economy. 

By Joseph Alden.D.D., LL.D., Principal of the Albany State Normal School, author 
of "Science of Government," etc. This treatise is remarkable for simplicity and 
clearness, and for the first time makes the teaching of this important subject prac- 
ticable in our common schools. 75*^- 

BARDEEIV. Common- School Law for Common- 
School Teachers. The standard text-book, pocket edition, handsomely 
bound. President White of Cornell says : " Not only every teacher in the State, but 
every member of the Legislature, and every Supervisor and School Commissioner, 
should have one." The London Sckoob?taster (England) says : " It w^ould seem that 
a similar work, treating of the legal rights, duties, and statutes of English school- 
masters, is much needed." 155 pages. Cloth. 50c. 

B ARDEElSr. Roderick Hume. The story of a New York 
Teacher. Over 300 pages. l6mo, beveled cloth, red edges. $1.25. 

"This story, which has been running for fifteen months in the SCHOOL Bul- 
letin, has excited wide interest on account of its bold and truthful description of 
the inside and outside management of the modern Union School. The Election of 
Trustees, the Hiring of Teachers, the Adoption of Text-Books, the common ques- 
tions of School Management and Discipline, are vividly and unflinchingly por- 
trayed; while the plot of the story is ingenious, and the interest of the reader is 
fixed from the first chapter. It is a book not only for teachers but for parents and 
pupils. " — Plattsburgh Sentinel. 

BEEBE. First Steps Among- Figvu*es. The simplest 

and clearest preparatory work in Arithmetic ever published. Teacher's Edition, 
including the Pupil's Edition and a Key to both Editions. 300 pages. Cloth. $1. 
Pupil's Edition, 45c. ; Oral Edition, 50c. 

This book has been adopted for use in the public schools of Norwich, Conn., 
Colorado Springs, Col., and very many of the largest places in New York, includ- 
ing Syracuse, Auburn, Canandaigua, Victor, Phelps, Clifton Springs, and nearly 
every village in Ontario county. // is the only practical exposition of the Grube 
method of teaching numbers. 

BENNETT. National Education in Italy, France, 
Germany, England and Wales. By c. w. Bennett, d.d.. Pro- 
fessor of History, Syracuse University. Being Vol. VII. of the American Library 
of Education. 15c. 

BRADFORD. The Thiity Problems of Percent- 

age. A drill-book. 19 pages. Flexible cloth. 25c. The new edition of this 
work contains, in addition to the previous matter, lOO examples, carefully selected 
to illustrate the Thirty Problems. 

DE GRAFF. The School-Room Guide, embodying 

the instruction given by the author at Teachers' Institutes and especially intended 
to assist public-school teachers in the practical work of the school-room. 457 pages. 
Cloth. $1.50. 

DE GRAFF. The School-Room Song Budget. 

Enlarged edition. Forty thousand copies of this book having been sold, a new edi- 
tion is now ready, containing ^;;^-/za^;«cr^ than former editions, but sold at the same 
price. It now contains 72 pages, 107 songs, 5 full-page and many smaller illustra- 
tions. 15c. each; $10 per hundred, net. 

DE GRAFF. The School-Room Chorus. This new and 

beautiful singing-book contains all the music and illustrations of the Song Budget, 
with about as many more in addition, and is bound in full cloth. 35c. each ; $30 per 
hundred, net. 

FITCH (J. G.). The Art of Questioning, a handbook 

for every teacher. This is Vol. II. of the School-Room Classics. 15c. 



CATALOGUE OF SCHOOL MERCHANDISE. 175 



HOOSE. Studies in Articulation. By jas. h. Hoose, 

Ph.D., Principal of the Cortland State Normal School. This not only analyzes 
each sound in the language, but gives as illustrations hundreds of words commonly 
mispronounced. Hon. W. D. Henkle, editor of the National Teacher, and oi Edu- 
cational Notes and Queries, says: "It is needless to say that we are pleased with 
this book, for it presents just what we have for years discussed in Teachers' Insti- 
tutes, and urged should be taught in Schools." 50c. 

HOOSE. On the Province of Methods in Teach- 
ing 5 with an Introduction by Prof. C. W. Bennett, of Syracuse University. This 
work is the fruit of a life of professional study, and is believed to fix certain principles 
of pedagogy as a ground-work for future investigation. $1. 

HUNTINGTON. Unconscious Tuition. By Rt. Rev. 

F. D. Huntington, Bishop of Central New York- being Vol. I. of the Sckool-Rootn 
Classics. 15 c. 

KENNEDY. The Philospohy of School Disci- 

pline. This remarkable address is everywhere received by educators as the 
foundation of a truly scientific theory of a subject hitherto treated empirically. This 
is Vol. III. of the School-Room Classics. 15c. 

LOCKE. Some Tlioug-hts Concerning- Education. 

By John Locke. Being Vol. I. of the American Library of Education. 25c. 

MANN. On the Study of Physiology in School. 

By Horace Mann. Being Vol. III. of the American Library of Education. 25c. 

NORTHAM. Civil Government for Common 

Schools^ to which is appended the Declaration of Independence, the Consti- 
tution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of New York, as re- 
cently amended. Cloth, handsomely bound. Fifth and revised edition. 75'^' 

In the Legislature of 1878, 1112 copies were ordered for the use of members 
of the Assembly. 

REGENTS' Questions, 1866 to 1878. These are the questions 
given from the first by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, 
to determine what pupils in Academies and Union Schools are sufficiently advanced 
in Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, etc., to pursue the higher branches. The 
questions are therefore practical, and form an admirable drill in any school. Com- 
plete. Cloth. $1. The same, with Keys to the Arithmetic, Grammar, and Geog- 
raphy, in one volume. Cloth. $2. Each subject separately, 25c. each. Keys to 
Arithmetic and Geography, 25 c. each. Key to Grammar, with Questions, $1. 
Arithmetic Questions, each on separate slips of cardboard, with Key, $1. 

These Questions are now used in preparation for the tri-yearly examinations in 
almost every Academy and Union School in the State of New York. They are also in 
extensive use in city and country schools throughout the country, while the Complete 
with Keys is looked upon as the best book for the teacher's own study. 

ROE. A Work in Number. By Martha Roe. intended for 
Junior classes, and containing three years' work. 161 pages. Cloth. 50c. 

"We have used the book for nearly a year, and find that the abundant provis- 
ions for class-work and class-drill have produced more independent and accurate 
work on the part of the pupils than was secured by the use of any other work we 
had obtained." — Principal y. H. Hoose, Cortland State Norfual School, 

SCHOOL. BULLETIN. The School Bulletin and 
New York State Educational Journal. The largest and 

cheapest monthly School Journal in the United States. $1 a year. Specimen copies, 

IOC. 

Bound Volumes of the School Bulletin. Volumes i., 

II., III., and IV., each handsomely bound in brown cloth, with gilt stamp on side 
and back. Each, $2. 

STOWELL. Syllabus of Lectures in Anatomy and 
Physiology. 50c. 



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WELLS. A New and Complete System of Pen- 
manship. Price, $1. Position Guide, 35c. 

The following testimonial was presented by the Superintendent and Principals 
of the Public Schools of Syracuse, after a carefal trial of this system : " Having ex- 
amined and personally tested the Wells improved method for teaching penmanship, 
we are convinced that the plan adopted in this work is eminently practical, and that 
the author has suggested a most intelligent and feasible system for the acquirement 
of this important branch. 

"Tliis method for practice being based upon a thorough discipline of the hand 
and arm, it is e\ident that the movements acquired can be depended upon, not only 
for the development of a rapid and graceful form of writing, but for permanency as 
well. 

"We are confident that any person by following out systematically the printed 
instructions, and practising from each exercise according to directions, can be very 
certain of securing a greatly improved style of penmanship." 



Blank Books. 

The Bull etin Blank Book Speller. This contains 40 pages, 

octavo size, and is bound in Stiff Ccniers, so that it may be written in when laid upon 
the knee. It is ruled for 70 lessons of 25 words each, with additional pages for mis- 
spelled words. It also contains rules for spelling, list of misspelled words, etc. Of 
its general character and utility, we need only say that it was prepared by Principal 
H. B. Buckham, of the Buffalo State Normal School. Price, 15c. each; $10 per 
hundred, net. 

The Bulletin Composition Book. This is similar to the 

above, and prepared by the same author. It is ruled for correction by a system of 
time-sa\'ing marks, each of which points out a particular fault. Price as above, 
15c. each; $10 per hundred, net. 

The Bulletin Writing- Pad. Each pad contains 96 leaves, 
192 pages, 8^ in. by 6. In lots of 500, a special back will be printed when desired, 
giving the name of the school, regulations, etc. Price, $6 per hundred, net. Speci- 
mens by mail, loc. 

The Bulletin School Ruler. These are one foot long, one inch 
wide, printed on manilla tag-board (or six inches long, one inch wide, on very 
heavy card-board, as preferred), with inches and metres on one side, and an im- 
mense amount of statistical information on the other. Price, 3c. each; $1 per hun- 
dred. 

The Bulletin Book-Keeping- Blanks. Day-Book, jour- 
nal, Ledger, Cash-Book, and Sales-Book, each 32 pages, ruled for single or double 
entry, and sufficient for a term's work. Price, 15c. each. 

The Bulletin Commissioners' Certificates. We 

now furnish nearly all the certificates issued to teachers by school commissioners. 
These are handsomely printed on grounds of three different tints for the different 
grades, and are issued in cloth bound books containing 100 certficates each. Price 
per book, post-paid, $1.15. 

Two Maps for Every School. We offer to Teachers and 

School Officers with our hearty recommendation, the following Maps, of which we 
have laid in a large stock, belie\ang them to be the best as well as the cheapest 
maps in the market: I.— MAP OF NEW YORK STATE. This Map is y/, x 4 
feet, handsomely colored by Towtis, so as to be available for a County Map, and gives 
the most recent changes in railroads, etc., together with a picture of the new Capitol 
at Albany. It is well varnished and mounted on rollers. It is the very best wall- 
map of New York State pubHshed. $2. II.— ?.IAP OF THE UNITED STATES. 
And upon the reverse side, i\IAP OF THE WORLD. This Map is 3^ x 5 feet, 
and though not as handsome as the Map of New York, is brightly colored, and the 
best cheap Map made. $2. Both Maps will be sent by mail for $3. 



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School Records. 

_ Bulletin Class Register. For several years one thousand of these 
Registers, designed by Superintendent Edward Smith, have been used annually in 
the pubhc schools of Syracuse, no other kind being employed for any purpose what- 
ever. Each one gives a daily register of 360 pupils for 20 weeks, or of 180 pupils 
for 40 weeks, or of 90 pupils for 80 weeks, etc. It is the simplest, neatest, and 
cheapest Class Register made. Price, 25c. each. 

Jackson's Class Record Cards are neat, simple, and time-sav- 
ing. They keep a perfect record with the least possible labor; they insure atten 
tion, and they stimulate effort. Put up only in sets of 100, each set containing 90 
white and 10 colored cards. By mail, post-paid, 50c. 

Ryan's School Record. The entire record of a school may be 
kept without copying, and a weekly report sent home each week, at the expense per 
term, 14 weeks, for 56 pupils, of 50 cents. 

Shaw's Scholar's Register, a daily record for fourteen weeks 
of the pupil's standing in attendance, conduct, recitation, etc., with many convenient 
blanks and -a summary for the term. Printed on writing paper, and prettily bound. 
50c. a dozen. 

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. 

The following will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price. 

Four Thousand Miles of African Travel. By A. S. 

Southworth, Ex-Secretary of the American Geographical Society. 

This volume describes the Social and Political condition of Egypt ; 
Adventures of Nile Travel; Life on the Desert; Journeys in Central 
Africa ; besides Industrial and Agricultural Enterprises in the Soudan 
and Abyssinia. 

One vol. 8vo, cloth, with Maps, and twenty full-page illus- 
trations, .......-.- $2.50 

History of the United States of America. By Har- 
vey P. Peet, LL.D. Pp. 423, .... $1.50 

Extending from the discovery of the continent to the close of 
President Lincoln's administration. A work of great accuracy, written 
in a pure, idiomatic style, and pronounced by good judges to be the 
best and most instructive history of this country that has ever. been 
condensed within the same compass. 

Shakespeare's Works. ]\"ew Edition. With Biographical 
Introduction by Henry Glassford Bell. Also, a complete 
Index and Glossary. Six vols. i6mo, cloth, $6; half calf, $12; 
full morocco, $15. 

The aim of the publishers of this edition has been to present, in a 
handsome and convenient form, and at a moderate price, a complete 
and accurate version of the whole of Shakespeare's Dramatic 
Works. 

The Practical Cook Book. By Mrs. H, M. Robinson. One 

vol. i2mo, cloth, -...--- $1-25 



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BOOKS FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 

The followi7ig will he sent, prepaid, on receipt of price. 



Abbott's American Pioneers and Pat- 
riots per vol. Si 25 

Daniel Boone. Captain Kldd. 

Miles Standish. Paul Jones. 

De Soto. La Salle. 

Peter Stuyvesant. Columbus. 

Kit Carson. George Washington. 

David Crockett. Benjamin Franklin. 

Abbott's Illustrated Histories. Blaps 

and Engravings, 16mo, per vol. 1 00 
Cyrus the Great. Queen Elizabeth. 

Darius the Great. Charles I. 

Xerxes. Charles 11. 

Alexander the Great. Josephine. 
Romulus. Marie Antoinette. 

Hannibal. Madame Roland. 

Pyrrhus. Henry IV. 

Julius Csesar. Peter the Great. 

Cleopatra. Genghis Khan. 

Nero. King Philip. 

Alfred the Great. Hernando Cortez. 

William the Con- Margaret of Anjou. 
queror. Joseph Bonaparte. 

Richard I. Queen Hortense. 

Richard H. Louis XIV. 

Richard HI. Louis Philippe. 

Mary Queen of Scots. 

Abbott's History of Russia 1 75 

Italy 1 75 

" " Austria 1 75 

Abbott's Rollo's Tour in Europe. 

10 vols 10 00 

Abbott's (Jacob) Science for the Young. 

Illustrated per vol. 1 50 

Heat. Water and Land. 

Light. Force. 

.^sop's Fables 1 50 

Aguilar's Works per vol. 1 00 

Home Influence. 
Mother's Recompense. 
Days of Bruce. 2 vols. 
Home Scenes and Heart Studies. 
Woman's Friendship. 
Women of Israel. 2 vols. 
Vale of Cedars. 
Alcott's (Louisa M.) Little Women. 

2 vols 3 00 

Little Men 1 50 

" Old Fashioned Girl 1 50 

" Eight Cousins 1 50 

" Rose in Bloom 1 50 

' ' Under the Lilacs 1 50 

" Work 1 75 

Anderson's (R. B.) Norse Mythology. . . 2 50 
Andersen's (Hans) The Improvisatore. 1 50 

Pictui-es of Travel 1 50 

Story of My Life 1 50 

Wonder Stories Told for Children ... 1 50 

Stories and Tales 1 50 

Arabian Nights' Entertainments 1 00 

Bancroft's History of United States. 

6 vols 13 50 

Biart's Adventures of a Young Natur- 
alist 1 75 

Bonner's Child's History of Greece. 2 

vols 2 50 

Bonner's Rome. 2 vols 2 50 

" United States. 3 vols 3 75 

Bowles's Across the Continent 1 50 

Bronte's Jane Eyre 1 00 

Shirley 1 00 

Villette 1 00 

" The Professor 1 00 

Browning's (Mrs.) Poems. Diamond 

edition 1 00 

Burns's Poems. Diamond edition ..... 1 00 



Byron's Poems $1 00 

Coffin's Boys of '76 3 00 

Story of Liberty 3 00 

Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales. 5 

vols per vol. 1 00 

Cooper's Sea Tales. 10 vols. ..per vol. 1 00 

Cox's Tales of Ancient Greece 1 50 

Cummins's The Lamphghter 1 50 

Dana's Two Years Before the Mast. . . 1 50 

De Foe's Robinson Crusoe 1 00 

Dickens's Works. 15 vols per vol. 1 50 

Don Quixote 1 00 

Du Chaillu's Stories of the Gorilla 

Country. Illustrated. 12mo 1 50 

Du Chaillu's Wild Life Under the Equa- 
tor. Illustrated. 12mo 150 

Du Chaillu's Lost in the Jungle. Illus- 
trated. 12ino 1 50 

Du Chaillu's My Apingi Kingdom. Il- 
lustrated. 12mo 150 

Du Chaillu's The Country of the 

Dwarfs. Illustrated. 12mo 1 50 

Edgar's Boyhood of Great Men. En- 
gravings. 16mo 1 00 

Edgar's Footprints of Famous Men. 

Engravings. 16mo 1 00 

Edgar's History for Boys. Engravings. 

16mo 1 00 

Eliot's (George) Works per vol. 1 25 

Adam Bede. Scenes of Clerical 

Daniel Deronda. 2 Life, and Silaa 

vols. Marner. 

Felix Holt. The Mill on the Floss. 

Middlemarch. 2 vols. Romola. 

Emerson's (R. W.) Essays 2 vols. 3 00 

" Representative Men 150 

EngUsh Traits 1 50 

Field's (H. M.) Journey Around the 

World. 2 vols 4 00 

Gibbon's Rome. 6 vols 4 80 

Goldsmith's Poems 1 00 

Green Blountain Boys 1 00 

Guild's Abroad Again 2 50 

" Over tbe Ocean 2 50 

Gulliver's Travels 1 00 

Harland's (Marion) Alone 1 50 

" Sunnybank 1 50 

" At Last 1 50 

" Miriam 1 50 

Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables.. . 1 25 

" Marble Faun. 2 vols 2 50 

" Scarlet Letter 1 25 

Headley's Napoleon and his Marshals 2 50 
" Washington and his Gen- 
erals 2 50 

Holland's (J. G.) Arthur Bonnicastle. . 1 75 

Gold Foil 1 75 

" Letters to Young People 1 50 

" Nicholas Minturn 1 75 

" Story of Seven Oaks 1 75 

Holmes's (Mrs.) Cameron Pride 1 50 

Daisy Thornton 1 50 

" Dora Deane 1 50 

" - Lena Rivers 1 50 

" Marian Grey 1 50 

" Meadow Brook 1 50 

" Tempest and Sunshine : 150 

" (O. W.) Autocrat of Break- 
fast Table 2 00 

" Professor at Breakfast Table 2 00 

Poet at Breakfast Table 2 00 

" Poems. Diamond edition.. . 1 00 
Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days 

at Rugby 1 00 

Hughes's Tom Brown at Oxford 1 50 

Hume's England. 6 vols 4 80 

H. H.'a Nellie's Silver 3Iine 1 50 



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H. H.s' Bits of Travel $1 25 

Bits of Travel at Home 1 50 

Illustrated Library of Travel. Edited 
by Bayard Taylor per vol. 1 50 

Japan in Our Day. 

Wild Men and Wild Beasts. 

Travels in Arabia. 

Travels in South Africa. 

Wonders of the Yellowstone. 

Lake Regions of Central Africa. 

Central Asia. 

Siam. 

Illustrated Library of 

Wonders pervol. 1 25 

Wonders of Optics. 
Thunder and Lightning. 
Wonders of Heat. 
Intelligence of Animals. 
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